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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; why the Normans, in some respects less sophisticated, possessed the military cutting edge; how William's hopes of a united Anglo-Norman realm unraveled, dashed by English rebellions, Viking invasions, and the insatiable demands of his fellow conquerors.
This is a tale of powerful drama, repression, and seismic social change: the Battle of Hastings itself; the sudden introduction of castles and the massive rebuilding of every major church; the total destruction of an ancient ruling class. Language, law, architecture, and even attitudes toward life itself were altered forever by the coming of the Normans.
Important places
Barking (2)Battle Abbey (1)
Canterbury Cathedral (37)
Dover Castle (5)
Maine (2)
Abingdon (11)
Anjou (9)
Battle (10)
Bayeux (11)
Bosham (2)
Bury St. Edmunds (11)
Caen (19)
Canterbury (100)
Chester (17)
Crediton (6)
Dives-sur-Mer (1)
Dover (41)
East Anglia (36)
Ely (37)
Evesham (7)
Exeter (65)
Falaise (4)
Fecamp (4)
Hastings (67)
Le Mans (10)
Lincoln (21)
London (7,094)
Mortemer (1)
New Forest District (38)
Norwich (36)
Old Sarum (1)
Oxford (518)
Penenden Heath (1)
Pevensey (4)
Riccall (1)
Rouen (69)
Salisbury (68)
Winchester (59)
Regions
Bristol (218)Devon (364)
Barking and Dagenham (6)
York (353)
North Yorkshire (467)
East Sussex (372)
West Sussex (108)
Nottingham (91)
Peterborough (17)
Kent (424)
Cambridgeshire (408)
Roma (1,363)
Wiltshire (272)
Suffolk (158)
Oxfordshire (697)
Cheshire West and Chester (44)
Calvados (459)
Isère (29)
Seine-Maritime (136)
Durham (62)
Hampshire (229)
Lincolnshire (74)
Norfolk (141)
Newcastle upon Tyne (39)
Worcestershire (54)
Morbihan (104)
Somme (97)
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Oise (68)
Sarthe (20)
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Italy (5,202)
Norway (581)
Denmark (520)
Ireland (2,156)
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Bretagne (112)
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (114)
Bretagne (145)
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (198)
English Channel (250)
North East (267)
Hauts-de-France (360)
East Midlands (446)
Normandie (609)
East of England (871)
North West (956)
Lazio (1,399)
West Midlands (2,407)
South East (2,496)
South West (2,602)
Midlands (2,795)
Yorkshire and The Humber (6,115)
North of England (7,026)
Southern Europe (7,123)
Greater London (7,856)