1066: the Year of the Conquest

by Fellow of Clare College and University Lecturer Da (Author)

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  Illustrated
  1981

  $5.12

  Everyone knows 1066 as the date of the Norman invasion and conquest of England. But how many of us can place that event in the context of the entire dramatic year in which it took place? From the death of Edward the Confessor in early January 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 Hastings.