The Norman Conquest had a profound impact upon English government, politics, and society. My doctoral research focuses on the royal estates, investigating how the land of the king (terra regis) and English landed society in general conceptually and materially changed after 1066. Since its formation in the tenth century, the kingdom of England remained a stable and cohesive polity during the central medieval period while socio-political decentralization was occurring elsewhere in western Europe. The strength of English institutions, which survived two comprehensive conquests in the eleventh century, owes much to the tangible foundations of wealth and authority provided by royal land. Thanks to Domesday Book and contemporary narrative histories, it is possible to reconstruct the royal estates and the chronology and process behind their transformation after 1066, which ultimately had profound implications for English political history under the Norman and Angevin kings.

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