• Most comprehensive and authoritative short guide to Medieval Britain
• Highly acclaimed text, first published in the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain
• Revised and updated for this edition
• Indispensable for students and general readers

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths' Very Short Introduction to Medieval Britain covers the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in the early Middle Ages, through to England's failure to dominate the British Isles and France in the later Middle Ages. Out of the turbulence came stronger senses of identity in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Yet this was an age, too, of growing definition of Englishness and of a distinctive English cultural tradition.