By Professor Jennifer Paxton 1066 (The Great Courses, No. 8422) (1st First Edition) [Audio CD]

by Jennifer Paxton

Unknown Binding

About the author

Dr. Jennifer Paxton is Professorial Lecturer in History at Georgetown University, where she has taught for more than a decade, and Visiting Assistant Professor of History at The Catholic University of America. The holder of a doctorate in history from Harvard University, where she has also taught and earned a Certificate of Distinction, Professor Paxton is both a widely published award-winning writer and a highly regarded scholar, earning both a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities and a Frank Knox Memorial Traveling Fellowship. She lectures regularly on medieval history at the Foreign Service Institute in Arlington, Virginia, and has also been invited to speak on British history at the Smithsonian Institution and the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC. Professor Paxton’s research focuses on England from the reign of King Alfred to the late 12th century, particularly the intersection between the authority of church and state and the representation of the past in historical texts, especially those produced by religious communities. She is currently completing a book, Chronicle and Community in Twelfth Century England, that will be published by Oxford University Press. It examines how monastic historians shaped their narratives to project present polemical concerns onto the past.

Jennifer is the daughter of well-known folk singer Tom Paxton.

Reviews

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

I always knew about the mixing of Normans and Anglo Saxons but this explained it to me more completely, with the context of the past and the impact/influences than anything ever has before.

[Bernie4444 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rebellion and reconciliation

This is a great introductory overview of the process leading up to 1066, the general events during 1066, and the results of 1066.

Before listening to this course by Professor Jennifer Paxton I had a general understanding of the highlights as separate facts; I had trouble keeping the individual players separated by time and relationship.

One of the real benefits of the course is being able to hear about some people and events that were glossed over. With the help of the supporting book find the spelling of these and stop long enough to order books on each of the subjects. I do not need to have so many details here, yet I can select more details after getting this overview.

I also found Professor Jennifer Paxton an easy person to listen to and understand. She makes tin information alive and contemporary as opposed to stodgy and musty.