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Author: David Clarke Publisher: ISBN: 9781909099517 Category : 1066 Harold's Way Languages : en Pages : 160
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Written by an experienced walker and historian, this book follows the new 'Harold's Way' footpath route through London, Kent and Sussex. 1066 Harold's Way is a new 100 mile long distance walk from West Minster Abbey to Battle Abbey, East Sussex tracing the probable route of King Harold's journey to the Battle of Hastings.
Author: David Clarke Publisher: ISBN: 9781909099517 Category : 1066 Harold's Way Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
Written by an experienced walker and historian, this book follows the new 'Harold's Way' footpath route through London, Kent and Sussex. 1066 Harold's Way is a new 100 mile long distance walk from West Minster Abbey to Battle Abbey, East Sussex tracing the probable route of King Harold's journey to the Battle of Hastings.
Author: Andrew Bridgeford Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 0802719406 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 386
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For more than 900 years the Bayeux Tapestry has preserved one of history's greatest dramas: the Norman Conquest of England, culminating in the death of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Historians have held for centuries that the majestic tapestry trumpets the glory of William the Conqueror and the victorious Normans. But is this true? In 1066, a brilliant piece of historical detective work, Andrew Bridgeford reveals a very different story that reinterprets and recasts the most decisive year in English history. Reading the tapestry as if it were a written text, Bridgeford discovers a wealth of new information subversively and ingeniously encoded in the threads, which appears to undermine the Norman point of view while presenting a secret tale undetected for centuries-an account of the final years of Anglo-Saxon England quite different from the Norman version. Bridgeford brings alive the turbulent 11th century in western Europe, a world of ambitious warrior bishops, court dwarfs, ruthless knights, and powerful women. 1066 offers readers a rare surprise-a book that reconsiders a long-accepted masterpiece, and sheds new light on a pivotal chapter of English history.
Author: David Howarth Publisher: ISBN: 9780141391052 Category : Great Britain Languages : en Pages : 207
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While the date 1066 is familiar to almost everybody as the year of the Norman conquest of England, few can place the event in the context of the dramatic year in which it took place. In this book, David Howarth attempts to bring alive the struggle for the succession to the English crown from the death of Edward the Confessor in January 1066 to the Christmas coronation of Duke William of Normandy. There is an almost uncanny symmetry, as well as a relentlessly exciting surge, of events leading to and from the Battle of Hastings.
Author: Michael Kenneth Lawson Publisher: Tempus Pub Limited ISBN: 9780752419985 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 287
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The events of 1066 need no introduction and many would claim that we have said all that there is to be said on the subject. Clearly they would be wrong. This thorough and detailed study, "the most detailed treatment of its subject for over a hundred years", reassesses the English and French sources that comment on the size, nature and tactics of the French and English armies and the events of the battle itself. This study breaks from the consensus of opinion in many ways and is a well-illustrated, highly readable account. 1066 remains the most evocative date in English history: King Harold was defeated by William the Conqueror, and the rule of England passed abruptly from the control of Saxon to that of Norman kings. M.K. Lawson re-writes this pivotal turning point in English history by subjecting the sources to the most detailed analysis ever undertaken. As a result, the consensus of opinion about many aspects of the battle, established in the late nineteenth century (and hardly questioned since), is shattered. Many of the facts about the battle have been deduced from the Bayeux Tapestry. M.K. Lawson takes a critical new look at this vital source subjecting it to a searching analysis. His conclusions are explosive. He advances powerful reasons for believing that the figure long accepted as being Harold hit in the eye by an arrow was originally simply one of the king's bodyguards throwing a spear. He also suggests that far more troops were involved than previously believed, operating over a significantly larger area and deploying more sophisticated tactics. - Publisher.
Author: Peter Marren Publisher: Pen & Sword Military ISBN: 9780850529531 Category : Great Britain Languages : en Pages : 0
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If ever there was a year of destiny for the British Isles, 066 must have a strong claim. King Harold faced invasion not just from William and the Normans across the English Channel but from the Dane, King Harald Hadrada. Before he faced the Normans at Hastings in October he had fought and defeated the Danes at York and neighboring Stamford Bridge in September. What dramatic changes of fortune, heroic marches, assaults by land and sea took place that year! This book explains what really happened and why in what is arguably the 'best-known' but worst understood battle in British history.
Author: Frank McLynn Publisher: Random House (UK) ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 332
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If ever there was a year of destiny for the British Isles, 1066 must have a strong claim. King Harold faced invasion not just from William and the Normans across the English Channel but from the Dane, King Harald Hardrada. Before he faced the Normans at Hastings in October, he had defeated the Danes at York and Stamford Bridge in September. In this superbly researched study, Frank McLynn overturns long-accepted myths, showing how William's victory at the Battle of Hastings was not, in fact, a certainty, and arguing that Harald Hardrada was actually the greatest warrior of the three. This is a masterly study, and reveals the truth to be more interesting than the myths surrounding this pivotal year in history.
Author: Benton Rain Patterson Publisher: Cooper Square Publishers ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 264
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Harold and William tells the dramatic story of the battle between Harold Godwinson (c1022-1066) and William " the Conqueror" (1027-1087), Duke of Normandy for the crown and destiny of England.
Author: Patrick Weber Publisher: Europe Comics ISBN: Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 75
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King Edward of England is dead. Edward's son Harold, one of the potential successors, renounces his oath to yield the throne to William of Normandy. From that day forth, William will have no peace until his rightful claim to the throne is acknowledged. As the famous Halley comet soars across the heavens, giving rise to much speculation among the scholars of the time, William, Duke of Normandy, launches into the arrangements for the conquest that will change the face of England -- one of the most formidable military expeditions History has ever seen. This is a tale of ambition, broken oaths, battles, love, death and glory.
Author: Marc Morris Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1639364005 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 562
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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. Morris writes with passion, verve, and scrupulous concern for historical accuracy. This is the definitive account for our times of an extraordinary story, indeed the pivotal moment in the shaping of the English nation.
Author: David Clarke
Author: David Clarke
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