Author : Wace
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 30,27 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843830078
Wace's Roman de Rou is both a valuable historical document and an important work of French literature. Composed during the 1160s and 1170s, it relates the origins of Normandy from the time of Hasting and Rollo (Rou) and continues as far as the battle of Tinchebray in 1106.
Author : David Bates
Publisher : University of London Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909646537
This volume is based on two international conferences held in 2013 and 2014 at Ariano Irpino, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It contains essays by leading scholars in the field. Like the conferences, the volume seeks to enhance interdisciplinary and international dialogue between those who work on the Normans and their conquests in northern and southern Europe in an original way. It has as its central theme issues related to cultural transfer, treated as being of a pan-European kind across the societies that the Normans conquered and as occurring within the distinct societies of the northern and southern conquests. These issues are also shown to be an aspect of the interaction between the Normans and the peoples they subjugated, among whom many then settled.
Author : Marc Morris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 13,40 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 : Peter Rex
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445608839
A radical retelling of the most important event in English history - the Norman invasion of 1066.
Author : R. Allen Brown
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 39,51 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 : John Gillingham
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 2000-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 019285402X
First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths' Very Short Introduction to Medieval Britain covers the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in the early Middle Ages, through to England's failure to dominate the British Isles and France in the later Middle Ages. Out of the turbulence came stronger senses of identity in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Yet this was an age, too, of growing definition of Englishness and of a distinctive English cultural tradition. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Marc Morris
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 17,23 MB
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 014197785X
On Christmas Day 1066, William, duke of Normandy was crowned in Westminster, the first Norman king of England. It was a disaster: soldiers outside, thinking shouts of acclamation were treachery, torched the surrounding buildings. To later chroniclers, it was an omen of the catastrophes to come. During the reign of William the Conqueror, England experienced greater and more seismic change than at any point before or since. Marc Morris's concise and gripping biography sifts through the sources of the time to give a fresh view of the man who changed England more than any other, as old ruling elites were swept away, enemies at home and abroad (including those in his closest family) were crushed, swathes of the country were devastated and the map of the nation itself was redrawn, giving greater power than ever to the king. When, towards the end of his reign, William undertook a great survey of his new lands, his subjects compared it to the last judgement of God, the Domesday Book. England had been transformed forever.
Author : Edward Augustus Freeman
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,51 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Edward J. Kealey
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 12,93 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Author : John Morris
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
