The 1066 Norman bruisers : how European thugs became english gentry /

The 1066 Norman Bruisers conjures up the vanished world of England in the late Middle Ages and casts light on one of the strangest quirks in the nation's history: how a bunch of European thugs became the quintessentially English gentry. In 1066 go-getting young immigrant Osbern Fitz Tezzo cross...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kay, Helen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Barnsley : Pen & Sword History, 2020.
Temas:
To 1500
Normans > England > History > To 1500.
Normans.
Great Britain > History > Norman period, 1066-1154.
Great Britain > History > Plantagenets, 1154-1399.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1066-1154 (Période normande)
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1154-1399 (Plantagenêts)
England.
Great Britain.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Winner takes all
  • The wages of war
  • An undone land
  • What's in a name?
  • Family versus flock
  • The path of chivalry
  • One Welshman's head
  • Blade and trade
  • On the King's business
  • Floating in blood
  • Illicit armour
  • Cornered and constrained
  • Black smoke
  • An unequal contest
  • Venom in the veins
  • The double legacy
  • Fortune's false wheel
  • Ashes and dust.

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