Sir Frank Merry Stenton as historian of the Norman conquest of England

The author of the article studies the problem of the Norman Conquest of England by the eminent British historian F. M. Stenton (1880-1967), largely unexplored topic in Anglo-American and Russian historiography. For 35 years, (1908-1943), F. M. Stenton published three of his main books, devoted to this problem - “William the Conqueror and the Rule of the Normans”, “The First Century of English Feudalism 1066-1666”, “Anglo-Saxon England”, but as the historian of the Norman Conquest of England F. M. Stenton is hardly known. The author of this article sets the many-sided goal - to adjust and supplement foreign and Russian strong tradition of the Norman Conquest of England by the views of F. M. Stenton as one of its founders and leading representatives in Anglo-American historiography; to trace the evolution of his views and to identify his contribution to the study of the Norman Conquest of England.