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An investigation into the hugely significant works produced by the Worcester foundation at a period of turmoil and change.
Author : Francesca Tinti
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Historiography
ISBN : 1914049047
An investigation into the hugely significant works produced by the Worcester foundation at a period of turmoil and change.
Author : Richard Huscroft
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 20,77 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1317866266
The Norman Conquest was one of the most significant events in European history. Over forty years from 1066, England was traumatised and transformed. The Anglo-Saxon ruling class was eliminated, foreign elites took control of Church and State, and England's entire political, social and cultural orientation was changed. Out of the upheaval which followed the Battle of Hastings, a new kind of Englishness emerged and the priorities of England's new rulers set the kingdom on the political course it was to follow for the rest of the Middle Ages. However, the Norman Conquest was more than a purely English phenomenon, for Wales, Scotland and Normandy were all deeply affected by it too. This book's broad sweep successfully encompasses these wider British and French perspectives to offer a fresh, clear and concise introduction to the events which propelled the two nations into the Middle Ages and dramatically altered the course of history.
Author : Julia Marvin
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781903153741
First full-length interpretive study of the prose Brut tradition, setting its manuscript context alongside textual analysis.
Author : Marc Morris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1639364005
A riveting and authoritative history of the single most important event in English history: The Norman Conquest. An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom. An invasion force on a scale not seen since the days of the Romans. One of the bloodiest and most decisive battles ever fought. This new history explains why the Norman Conquest was the most significant cultural and military episode in English history. Assessing the original evidence at every turn, Marc Morris goes beyond the familiar outline to explain why England was at once so powerful and yet so vulnerable to William the Conqueror’s attack. Morris writes with passion, verve, and scrupulous concern for historical accuracy. This is the definitive account for our times of an extraordinary story, indeed the pivotal moment in the shaping of the English nation.
Author : Trevor Rowley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 31,96 MB
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 042960209X
Originally published in 1983, The Norman Heritage looks at the Norman Conquest as a turning point in English history. The book argues that not only was this the last time that England was successfully invaded, but it followed a complete change in the ruling dynasty, the introduction of military feudalism, the reform of the church and the rapid spread of monasticism. The book suggests that such social and political changes were accompanied by dramatic architectural and topographical developments. Frenzied building activity resulted in the construction of cathedrals, churches, monasteries and castles and stone was used on a scale unknown since the end of the Roman Empire. The Norman desire to exercise regional political control and to simulate trade resulted in a rash of newly planned towns across the country. In many more subtle ways, Anglo-Saxon landscape was altered and modified by Norman coercion and influence. Through their energy and administrative ability, the Normans transformed the face of town and country alike, and this book traces the impact of the Norman Conquest upon the British scene, through both a historical narrative, surviving structural remains of buildings and the patterns of settlements, communications and land use that developed during this period.
Author : Laura Cleaver
Publisher : Writing History in the Middle Ages
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 30,32 MB
Release : 2022-10-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781914049118
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Author : R. Allen Brown
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851153674
Classic work assessing the impact of the Norman Conquest in European context. The introduction of Brown's book should be made compulsory reading- LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKSThe `English' who faced the forces of William duke of Normandy on 14 October 1066 were by no means a pure-bred and unified race, norwas the flower of England's manhood laid low by an army of self-seeking Norman opportunists. R. Allen Brown traces the forces and influences that shaped both England and Normandy in the decades before 1066, and shows how the new order, emerging from the aftermath of the battle of Hastings, produced a degree of political unity and social dynamism previously unknown in England, bringing a reinvigorated nation fully into the mainstream of the dynamic expansion of western Latin Christendom.R. ALLEN BROWN was professor of History at King's College, London and founder of the annual Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman studies.
Author : Marc Morris
Publisher : Pegasus Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,86 MB
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781605986517
An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom. An invasion force on a scale not seen since the days of the Romans. One of the bloodiest and most decisive battles ever fought. This new history explains why the Norman Conquest was the most significant cultural and military episode in English history. Assessing the original evidence at every turn, Marc Morris goes beyond the familiar outline to explain why England was at once so powerful and yet so vulnerable to William the Conqueror’s attack. Morris writes with passion, verve, and scrupulous concern for historical accuracy. This is the definitive account for our times of an extraordinary story, indeed the pivotal moment in the shaping of the English nation.
Author : Trevor Rowley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1643136356
A powerful and evocative portrait of the Norman Conquest of Europe, revealing the permanent cultural and political legacy that resulted in their ascendency. The Norman’s conquering of the known world was a phenomenon unlike anything Europe had seen up to that point in history. They emerged early in the tenth century but had disappeared from world affairs by the mid-thirteenth century. Yet in that time they had conquered England, Ireland, much of Wales and parts of Scotland. They also founded a new Mediterranean kingdom in southern Italy and Sicily, as well as a Crusader state in the Holy Land and in North Africa. Moreover, they had an extraordinary ability to adapt as time and place dictated, taking on the role of Norse invaders to Frankish crusaders, from Byzantine overlords to feudal monarchs. Drawing on archaeological and historical evidence, Trevor Rowley offers a comprehensive picture of the Normans and argues that despite the short time span of Norman ascendancy, it is clear that they were responsible for a permanent cultural and political legacy.
Author : Charles Homer Haskins
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Europe
ISBN :