A Brief History of Britain 1066-1485
The Birth of the Nation
$47.72
- Paperback
560 pages
- Release Date
23 June 2011
Summary
From the Battle of Hastings to the Battle of Bosworth Field, Nicholas Vincent tells the story of how Britain was born.
When William, Duke of Normandy, killed King Harold and seized the throne of England, England’s language, culture, politics and law were transformed. Over the next four hundred years, under royal dynasties that looked principally to France for inspiration and ideas, an English identity was born, based in part on the struggle for control over the other parts of the Brit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781845293963 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1845293967 |
| Author: | Nicholas Vincent, Professor Nicholas Vincent |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Robinson Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 560 |
| Release Date: | 23 June 2011 |
| Weight: | 433g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 36mm |
| Series: | Brief Histories |
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About The Author
Nicholas Vincent
Nicholas Vincent has published a dozen books and some hundred academic articles on various aspects of English and European history in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, having arrived at Norwich via Oxford, Cambridge, Paris and Canterbury. He is now Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia, where he is currently finishing an edition of the charters of the Plantagenet kings and queens from Henry II to King John, and leads a major project researching the background to Magna Carta. Nicholas is a Fellow of the British Academy.
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