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Mereminskiy S. G. <\/em>\u201cThe most Memorable Date\u201d: The Norman Conquest in English Literature of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries [Digital resource]\u00a0\/\/ Vox medii aevi. 2019. Vol. 2(5). P.\u00a073\u201387. URL: https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/2019-2-mereminskiy<\/a>
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Stanislav Mereminskiy<\/h3>\n\n\n

Candidate of Sciences (History), Senior Researcher at the Center for the Study of the History of Historical Knowledge, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Science; Associate Professor at The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
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\u201cThe most Memorable Date\u201d: The Norman Conquest in English Literature of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries<\/h2>\n\n\n

The paper deals with various manifestations of the Norman Conquest (1066) in three iconic English literary works: \u201cIvanhoe\u201d by Sir Walter Scott, \u201cAlice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland\u201d by Lewis Carroll, and \u201c1066 and All That\u201d by W. Sellar and R. Yeatman. Scott\u2019s novel, which became his first book on a medieval subject, made a huge success and had a strong impact on the growing interest of English public in the events of 1066 and their consequences. The idea of the forging of united English nation as a result of commixture of two \u201craces\u201d (the Saxons and the Normans) became a major concept of \u2018Whiggish\u2019 historiography of the Victorian age. It penetrated into both scholar works and textbooks. Among the last was \u201cA Short Course of History\u201d by Havilland Le Mesurier Chepmell. The fragment of that work dealing with the Norman Conquest Lewis Carroll inserted into his classic fairy tale as an example of the \u201cdriest thing I know\u201d. The model of Whig\u2019s historiography, designed to justify ongoing success of the British state, faced a serious crisis under the influence of the World War I. Among the manifestations of that crisis was a book by W. Sellar and R. Yeatman, a brilliant satire on school textbooks that were at the same time deconstructed and brought to the point of absurdity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keywords:<\/em> \u201c1066 and All That\u201d; Lewis Carroll medievalism; Norman Conquest of England; Walter Scott; Whig\u2019s historiography.<\/p>\n\n\n

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