The Normans -
People and Places, Castles and Cathedrals,
Art and Architecture

English Heritage Collections -
The Norman Conquest Collection

• A gallery of many colourful images of castles, cathedrals and other sites, on the English Heritage Images site

The Gatehouse

• A comprehensive online gazetteer and bibliography of the medieval castles, fortifications and palaces of England, Wales, the Channel Isles and the Isle of Man
• The Gatehouse site includes county indexes, sources, essays

The Lands of the Normans (1204 - 1244)

• Background information pages; images of documents and other sources; searchable database of places and people; selected case-studies of Anglo-Norman families; glossary

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland

• A growing online archive of British and Irish Romanesque stone sculpture, which flourished following the Norman Conquest in 1066
• Much of this sculpture remains in parish churches and cathedrals, houses and halls, castles and museums
• You can search the collection or browse it county by county, so you can easily discover what remains in Bedfordshire

Cathedrals Plus

• This Cathedrals Pius site gives you links to sites for individual British cathedrals, amongst which are many built by the Normans

PASE (Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England)

• A searchable database of every recorded person in Anglo-Saxon and early Norman England

• PASE is compiled from inscriptions, coins and written sources. It reveals who owned what,both before and after 1066

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB)

• Log in with your library card number and PIN to view the ODNB online

• The ODNB online gives you a 'Monarchs of England' list divided chronologically

• Start by entering a search for William the Conqueror

• You will see the other related links at the left

Oxford Art Online

• Log in to Oxford Art Online with your library card number and PIN

• Search Norman in the 'Concise Oxford dictionary of art terms', for a concise explanation of Norman art

• Follow that up by a search on the term Romanesque in 'Grove Art Online'

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