This is the first book on Giraldus Cambrensis published for sixty years.

Preface.

Seven years after the work was first completed as a doctoral thesis, and four years after its last revision for publication in book-form, I welcome the opportunity to issue a revised edition of the text.

Preface (rev. ed., 1976).

The period conventionally called the High Middle Ages saw the decisive encounter between the universal Empire and the universal Church which ended with the victory of the Church, although this victory was short-lived.

Introduction.

It has been disputed whether politically the Norman Conquest of 1066 had a revolutionary impact on England.

I. - Church reform in Britain and Ireland after the Conquest.