This history covers the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy, through to England's failure to dominate the British Isles and France. As senses of identity... » 

This history covers the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy, through to England's failure to dominate the British Isles and France. As senses of identity in Scotland, Wales and Ireland strengthened, this was also an age of growing Englishness and of a distinctive English cultural tradition. «