The History Of The Norman People

Author : Wace
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843830078
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Norman People written by Wace and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wace's Roman de Rou is both a valuable historical document and an important work of French literature.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 :
ISBN 13 : 9781909646537
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People, Texts and Artefacts written by David Bates and published by . This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Norman People and Their Existing Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the origin of supposedly Norman surnames.

Author : Marc Morris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639364005
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Norman Conquest written by Marc Morris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1445608839
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1066 written by Peter Rex and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical retelling of the most important event in English history - the Norman invasion of 1066.

Author : John Fletcher Clews Harrison
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780709901259
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Common People written by John Fletcher Clews Harrison and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1984 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ed West
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1510719911
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1066 and Before All That written by Ed West and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting account of the most consequential year in English history, marked by bloody conflict with invaders on all sides. 1066 is the most famous date in history, and with good reason, since no battle in medieval history had such a devastating effect on its losers as the Battle of Hastings, which altered the entire course of English history. The French-speaking Normans were the pre-eminent warriors of the 11th century and based their entire society around conflict. They were led by William 'the Bastard' a formidable, ruthless warrior, who was convinced that his half-Norman cousin, Edward the Confessor, had promised him the throne of England. However, when Edward died in January 1066, Harold Godwinson, the richest earl in the land and the son of a pirate, took the throne . . . . this left William no choice but to forcibly claim what he believed to be his right. What ensued was one of the bloodiest periods of English history, with a body count that might make even George RR Martin balk. Pitched at newcomers to the subject, this book will explain how the disastrous battle changed England—and the English—forever, introducing the medieval world of chivalry, castles and horse-bound knights. It is the first part in the new A Very, Very Short History of England series, which aims to capture the major moments of English history with humor and bite.

Author : John Fletcher Clews Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Common People of Great Britain written by John Fletcher Clews Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hugh M. Thomas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742538405
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Norman Conquest written by Hugh M. Thomas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the successful Norman invasion of England in 1066, this concise and readable book focuses especially on the often dramatic and enduring changes wrought by William the Conqueror and his followers. From the perspective of a modern social historian, Hugh M. Thomas considers the conquest's wide-ranging impact by taking a fresh look at such traditional themes as the influence of battles and great men on history and assessing how far the shift in ruling dynasty and noble elites affected broader aspects of English history. The author sets the stage by describing English society before the Norman Conquest and recounting the dramatic story of the conquest, including the climactic Battle of Hastings. He then traces the influence of the invasion itself and the Normans' political, military, institutional, and legal transformations. Inevitably following on the heels of institutional reform came economic, social, religious, and cultural changes. The results, Thomas convincingly shows, are both complex and surprising. In some areas where one might expect profound influence, such as government institutions, there was little change. In other respects, such as the indirect transformation of the English language, the conquest had profound and lasting effects. With its combination of exciting narrative and clear analysis, this book will capture students interest in a range of courses on medieval and Western history.

Author : R. Allen Brown
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780851153674
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Normans and the Norman Conquest written by R. Allen Brown and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.