The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England (Unabridged) The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England (Unabridged)

The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England (Unabridged‪)‬

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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; why the Normans, in some respects less sophisticated, possessed the military cutting edge; how William’s hopes of a united Anglo-Norman realm unraveled, dashed by English rebellions, Viking invasions, and the insatiable demands of his fellow conquerors.

This is a tale of powerful drama, repression, and seismic social change: the Battle of Hastings itself; the sudden introduction of castles and the massive rebuilding of every major church; the total destruction of an ancient ruling class. Language, law, architecture, and even attitudes toward life itself were altered forever by the coming of the Normans.

GENRE
Histoire
NARRATION
FD
Frazer Douglas
LANGUE
EN
Anglais
DURÉE
18:11
h min
SORTIE
2013
24 septembre
ÉDITIONS
Audible Studios
PRÉSENTÉ PAR
Audible.fr
TAILLE
833,5
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