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William the Conqueror

George Edward Slocombe

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Description:At once the most familiar name in English history and the least-known of their kings, William the Conqueror towers above his contemporaries and throws a long shadow of ruthless achievement down to our own time. The man who planned and carried out the invasion of England, which long afterwards both Napoleon and Hitler planned but abandoned, was no ordinary mediaeval warrior. Many features of the Norman Conquest remain obscure, but the drama and its characters are Shakespearian in colour and intensity. These are the qualities that George Slocombe has captured, finding his way with scholarly discernment among the confusions, contradictions and complexities of his sources to produce a narrative of undoubted power. From the outset the strange career of the bastard child of Robert the Magnificent and Arlette, the daughter of a tanner at Falaise, fires the imagination. Ruler of Normandy at the age of eight, William was to wage successful war both against his own rebellious barons and his overlord, the King of France. Even in his marriage with Matilda of Flanders he was to defy the ban of the Pope, and his conquest of England was to change the course of history by bringing his new kingdom into the European world in which it was to play an increasingly important part. Only less striking are the other figures in the drama of this turbulent period -- the great Norse warrior Harold Hardrada, Earl Godwin and Harold of England, the Lady Emma, the churchman Lanfranc, the English outlaw Hereward the Wake, and Odo, Bishop of Bayeaux.In the Norman countryside, so rich in memories of William, the characters and events of his story seem to come alive again. George Slocombe has made his home there for many years, and it is this sense of the living past that he has so successfully conveyed in this biography.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with William the Conqueror. To get started finding William the Conqueror, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 271

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons

Release: 1961

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Description: At once the most familiar name in English history and the least-known of their kings, William the Conqueror towers above his contemporaries and throws a long shadow of ruthless achievement down to our own time. The man who planned and carried out the invasion of England, which long afterwards both Napoleon and Hitler planned but abandoned, was no ordinary mediaeval warrior. Many features of the Norman Conquest remain obscure, but the drama and its characters are Shakespearian in colour and intensity. These are the qualities that George Slocombe has captured, finding his way with scholarly discernment among the confusions, contradictions and complexities of his sources to produce a narrative of undoubted power. From the outset the strange career of the bastard child of Robert the Magnificent and Arlette, the daughter of a tanner at Falaise, fires the imagination. Ruler of Normandy at the age of eight, William was to wage successful war both against his own rebellious barons and his overlord, the King of France. Even in his marriage with Matilda of Flanders he was to defy the ban of the Pope, and his conquest of England was to change the course of history by bringing his new kingdom into the European world in which it was to play an increasingly important part. Only less striking are the other figures in the drama of this turbulent period -- the great Norse warrior Harold Hardrada, Earl Godwin and Harold of England, the Lady Emma, the churchman Lanfranc, the English outlaw Hereward the Wake, and Odo, Bishop of Bayeaux.In the Norman countryside, so rich in memories of William, the characters and events of his story seem to come alive again. George Slocombe has made his home there for many years, and it is this sense of the living past that he has so successfully conveyed in this biography.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with William the Conqueror. To get started finding William the Conqueror, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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