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(3) | Ingen/inga | 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, nor was 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.… (mer) |
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Information från den engelska sidan med allmänna fakta. Redigera om du vill anpassa till ditt språk. England itself, in foolish quarters of England, still howls and execrates lamentably over its William Conqueror, and rigorous line of Normans and Plantagenets; but without them, if you will consider well, what had it ever been?
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Information från den engelska sidan med allmänna fakta. Redigera om du vill anpassa till ditt språk. It might perhaps be thought that anyone writing another book on the Norman Conquest just now should begin with an apology.
Preface to the first edition. I am first and foremost grateful to the publishers, Boydell and Brewer, for agreeing to reissue this book, which was most certainly not dead but had unhappily been out of print for a number of years.
Preface to the second edition. Few subjects in English history have been studied more and for longer than the Norman Conquest, and few have been more bent in the process by biases interpretations based upon unhistorical prejudices.
Introduction. Of all centuries in the history of the West, the eleventh is perhaps the most exciting and the most formative.
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Information från den engelska sidan med allmänna fakta. Redigera om du vill anpassa till ditt språk. In the long term as in the short term it seems inevitable to end this book as it began, with Carlyle's unanswerable question - 'England itself, in foolish quarters of England, still howls and execrates lamentably over its William the Conqueror, and rigorous line of Normans and Plantagenets; but without them, if you will consider well, what had it ever been?' (Klicka för att visa. Varning: Kan innehålla spoilers.) | |
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