This is a repository copy of Rewriting the narrative : regional dimensions of the Norman Conquest. White Rose Research Online URL for this paper: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/129502/ Version: Accepted Version Book Section: McClain, Aleksandra Noel orcid.org/0000-0001-8201-3806 (2017) Rewriting the narrative : regional dimensions of the Norman Conquest. In: Hadley, Dawn and Dyer, Christopher, (eds.) The Archaeology of the Eleventh Century. Routledge , London , pp. 203-227. Reuse Items deposited in White Rose Research Online are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved unless indicated otherwise. They may be downloaded and/or printed for private study, or other acts as permitted by national copyright laws. The publisher or other rights holders may allow further reproduction and re-use of the full text version. This is indicated by the licence information on the White Rose Research Online record for the item. Takedown If you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing
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[email protected] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ chapter 11 REWRITING THE NARRATIVE: REGIONAL DIMENSIONS OF THE NORMAN CONQUEST Aleksandra McClain This chapter proposes a new material approach to the Norman Conquest, which has often been defined by its documentary narrative and conceptualised as a singular event at a national scale. It is argued here that the Conquest should instead be understood as a process with distinct regional variations, which were profoundly affected by localised socio-cultural dynamics and material traditions.