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The Penguin History of Britain: The Struggle for Mastery: Britain 1066-1284

By David Carpenter

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2004
ISBN
9780141935140
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3090382 bytes)
Series
History of Britain
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-02 08:17:37
History; Nonfiction; HIS000000

Description

The two-and-a-half centuries after 1066 were momentous ones in the history of Britain. In 1066, England was conquered for the last time. The Anglo-Saxon ruling class was destroyed and and the English became a subject race, dominated by a Norman-French dynasty and aristocracy. This book shows how the English domination of the kingdom was by no means a foregone conclusion. The struggle for mastery in the book's title is in reality the struggle for different masteries within Great Britain. The book weaves together the histories of England, Scotland and Wales in a new way and argues that all three, in their different fashions, were competing for domination

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