English Collusion And The Norman Conquest

Author : Arthur C Wright
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526773739

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The reality of war, in any period, is its totality. Warfare affects everyone in a society. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive analysis of eleventh century warfare as exposed in the record of the Norman Conquest of England. King William I experienced a lifetime of conflict on and off so many battlefields. In English Collusion and the Norman Conquest, Arthur Wright’s second book on the Norman Conquest, he argues that this monarch has received an undeserved reputation bestowed on him by clerics ignorant alike of warfare, politics, economics and of the secular world, men writing half a century after events reported to them by doubtful sources. How much of this popular legend was actually created by an avaricious Church? Was he just a lucky, brutal soldier, or was he instead a gifted English King who could meld cultures and talents? This is a tale of blood, deceit, ambition and power politics which pieces together the self-interested distortion of events, brutalizing conflict and superb strategic acumen by using and analyzing contemporary evidence the like of which is not to be found elsewhere in Europe. By 1072 King William should have been secure upon the English throne, so what went wrong? How did a Norman Duke and a few thousand mercenaries take and hold such a wealthy and populous Kingdom? Even in the ‘Harrowing of the North’, which probably saw the death of tens of thousands, who was really to blame and why did it happen?

Author : Arthur C. Wright
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1526773708

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English Collusion and the Norman Conquest by Arthur C. Wright Pdf

The reality of war, in any period, is its totality. Warfare affects everyone in a society. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive analysis of eleventh century warfare as exposed in the record of the Norman Conquest of England. King William I experienced a lifetime of conflict on and off so many battlefields. In English Collusion and the Norman Conquest, Arthur Wright's second book on the Norman Conquest, he argues that this monarch has received an undeserved reputation bestowed on him by clerics ignorant alike of warfare, politics, economics and of the secular world, men writing half a century after events reported to them by doubtful sources. How much of this popular legend was actually created by an avaricious Church?Was he just a lucky, brutal soldier, or was he instead a gifted English King who could meld cultures and talents? This is a tale of blood, deceit, ambition and power politics which pieces together the self-interested distortion of events, brutalising conflict and superb strategic acumen by using and analysing contemporary evidence the like of which is not to be found elsewhere in Europe.By 1072 King William should have been secure upon the English throne, so what went wrong? How did a Norman Duke and a few thousand mercenaries take and hold such a wealthy and populous Kingdom? Even in the 'Harrowing of the North', which probably saw the death of tens of thousands, who was really to blame and why did it happen?

Author : Ann Williams
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0851157084

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The English and the Norman Conquest by Ann Williams Pdf

A study of the experiences of the lesser English lords and landowners at the time of the Norman conquest and the aftermath

Author : Richard Huscroft
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317866268

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The Norman Conquest by Richard Huscroft Pdf

The Norman Conquest was one of the most significant events in European history. Over forty years from 1066, England was traumatised and transformed. The Anglo-Saxon ruling class was eliminated, foreign elites took control of Church and State, and England's entire political, social and cultural orientation was changed. Out of the upheaval which followed the Battle of Hastings, a new kind of Englishness emerged and the priorities of England's new rulers set the kingdom on the political course it was to follow for the rest of the Middle Ages. However, the Norman Conquest was more than a purely English phenomenon, for Wales, Scotland and Normandy were all deeply affected by it too. This book's broad sweep successfully encompasses these wider British and French perspectives to offer a fresh, clear and concise introduction to the events which propelled the two nations into the Middle Ages and dramatically altered the course of history.

Author : R. Allen Brown
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0851153674

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The Normans and the Norman Conquest by R. Allen Brown Pdf

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.

Author : Arthur Wright
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800463448

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Raising the Dead by Arthur Wright Pdf

Domesday Book is a massive collection of statistics in two million words and has been described as “the most comprehensive array of social and economic data… possibly from the planet”, a unique and never-again-repeated achievement of world-heritage status and, though not as large as the pyramids of Egypt or the Great Wall of China, unique to England. In spite of two centuries (and more) of scholarly speculations and diligent translations it has never actually been read – no-one can make sense of the statistics it contains and some have claimed it was a waste of time! There are just twenty words, in two places, which provide the key to opening-up the translation and, up to now, they have gone unremarked. Why? Well that is part of the detective story. Here is the key to reading it, for the first time in 900 years! Though Raising the Dead contains a serious archaeological discovery, it nevertheless reads like a novel, like a search for a lost tomb and a buried treasure. At the heart of this search is a hidden clue: just twenty words in two million will unlock the tomb and from there, it is a matter of code-breaking in order to search out the treasure. The step-by-step logic makes this the ideal book for the classroom and also for non-specialist readers, making light of the logic and statistics required to detect this secret repository.

Author : Edward Augustus Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : PSU:000030046290

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The History of the Norman Conquest of England by Edward Augustus Freeman Pdf

Author : Arthur C Wright
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399087995

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The Battles That Created England 793-1100 by Arthur C Wright Pdf

In popular imagination the warfare of the Early Middle Ages is often obscure, unstructured, and unimaginative, lost between two military machines, the ‘Romans’ and the ‘Normans’, which saw the country invaded and partitioned. In point of fact, we have a considerable amount of information at our fingertips and the picture that should emerge is one of English ability in the face of sometimes overwhelming pressures on society, and a resilience that eventually drew the older kingdoms together in new external responses which united the ‘English’ in a common sense of purpose. This is the story of how the Saxon kingdoms, which had maintained their independence for generations, were compelled to unite their forces to resist the external threat of the Viking incursions. The kingdoms of East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria, Kent, Essex, Sussex, and Wessex were gradually welded into one as Wessex grew in strength to become the dominant Saxon kingdom. From the weak Æthelred to the strong Alfred, rightly deserving the epithet ‘Great’, to the strong, but equally unfortunate, Harold, this era witnessed brutal hand-to-hand battles in congested melees, which are normally portrayed as unsophisticated but deadly brawls. In reality, the warriors of the era were experienced fighters often displaying sophisticated strategies and deploying complex tactics. Our principal source, replete with reasonably reliable reportage, are the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, comprehensive in collation though subject to oral distortion and mythological excursions. The narrative of these does not appear to flow continuously, leaving too much to imagination but, by creating a complementary matrix of landscapes, topography and communications it is possible to provide convincing scenery into which we can fit other archaeological and philological evidence to show how the English nation was formed in the bloody slaughter of battle.

Author : Edward Augustus Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105014863125

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The History of the Norman Conquest of England: The effects of the Norman Conquest by Edward Augustus Freeman Pdf

Author : Hugh M. Thomas
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191554766

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The English and the Normans by Hugh M. Thomas Pdf

Since the Anglo-Norman period itself, the relations beween the English and the Normans have formed a subject of lively debate. For most of that time, however, complacency about the inevitability of assimilation and of the Anglicization of Normans after 1066 has ruled. This book first challenges that complacency, then goes on to provide the fullest explanation yet for why the two peoples merged and the Normans became English. Drawing on anthropological theory, the latest scholarship on Anglo-Norman England, and sources ranging from charters and legal documents to saints' lives and romances, it provides a complex exploration of ethnic relations on the levels of personal interaction, cultural assimilation, and the construction of identity. As a result, the work provides an important case study in pre-modern ethnic relations that combines both old and new approaches, and sheds new light on some of the most important developments in English history.

Author : Edward A. Freeman,Edward Augustus Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : EHC:148100215092X

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The History of the Norman Conquest of England by Edward A. Freeman,Edward Augustus Freeman Pdf

Author : Edward Augustus Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 982 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : BSB:BSB11332122

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The History of the Norman Conquest of England, Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman Pdf

"I have at last completed this work. ... It will be at once seen that, in the narrative part of this volume, even in the fuller accounts of William Rufus, Henry the First, and Stephen, I do not profess to tell the tale in full ... As the subject of this volume is the Effects of the Norman Conquest, I have written the history of those reigns from that special point of view. My object has been to enlarge on everything that throws light on the effects of the Conquest, especially on everything that throws light on the relations between Normans and English in England. Other matters I have cut comparatively short." --Preface by author, 1876.

Author : Reginald Allen Brown
Publisher : Constable & Robinson
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015041826283

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The Normans and the Norman Conquest by Reginald Allen Brown Pdf

Author : Brian Golding
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 031212127X

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Conquest and Colonisation by Brian Golding Pdf

The Norman Conquest of 1066 - often described as the last successful foreign invasion of England - is one of the most famous and significant events in English history. William the Conqueror's narrow victory at Hastings was the prelude to the settlement of an alien aristocracy and culture that ultimately affected not only England, but much of Wales and Scotland. Its impact has been a matter of heated controversy since the seventeenth century: was the Conquest merely a continuation under new leadership of established patterns of government and society, or did it result in cataclysmic change? Certainly, the close ties thus established between Normandy and England were to influence Anglo-French relations throughout the Middle Ages, while the emergence of a new dominant establishment culture was indicated not only in 'high politics' but in such areas as language and architecture. Norman colonisation was a long process, hardly complete by 1100, by which time there were already strong signs of assimilation between colonists and natives, and a literature stressing a coherent and integrated Anglo-Norman state. After first providing an analysis of its political context and realisation, this book investigates the Conquest from a number of perspectives. It examines the dynamics of colonisation and explores the effect of the Norman settlement in a number of key areas including government, military organisation and the Church.

Author : Siobhan Brownlie
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843838524

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Memory and Myths of the Norman Conquest by Siobhan Brownlie Pdf

In an innovative approach drawn from Memory Studies, this book seeks to uncover how the Norman Conquest is popularly "remembered". The Norman Conquest is one of the most significant events in British history - but how is it actually remembered and perceived today? This book offers a study of contemporary British memory of the Norman Conquest, focussing on shared knowledge, attitudes and beliefs. A major source of evidence for its findings are references to the Norman Conquest in contemporary British newspaper articles: 807 articles containing references to the Conquest were collectedfrom ten British newspapers, covering a recent three year period. A second important source of information is a quantitative survey for which a representative sample of 2000 UK residents was questioned. These sources are supplemented by the study of contemporary books and film material, as well as medieval chronicles for comparative purposes, and the author also draws on cultural theory to highlight the characteristics and functions of distant memory and myth. The investigation culminates in considering the potential impact of memory of the Norman Conquest in Britain today. Siobhan Brownlie is a Lecturer in the School of Arts, Languages & Cultures at the University of Manchester.