The 1066 Norman bruisers
Kay, Helen2019
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In 1066, go-getting young immigrant Osbern Fitz-Tezzo crossed the Channel in William the Conqueror's army. Little did he know that it would take five years to vanquish the English, years in which the Normans suffered almost as much as the people they had set out to subdue. For the English, the Norman Conquest was an unmitigated disaster, killing thousands by the sword or starvation. But for Osbern and his compatriots, it brought territory and treasure - and a generational evolution they could never have imagined. 'The 1066 Norman Bruisers' conjures up the vanished world of England in the late Middle Ages and casts light on one of the strangest quirks in the nation's history: how a bunch of European thugs became quintessentially English gentry.
Main title:
The 1066 Norman bruisers / Helen Kay.
Author:
Kay, Helen, author
Imprint:
Barnsley : Pen & Sword History, 2019.
Collation:
272 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781526759382 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
942.02942.02 KAY
Language:
English
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BRN:
435312
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