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From the Norman Conquest to the Struggle of Bosworth Field - how Britain was invaded and became a region. The first volume in the stunning four-volume Brief Record of Britain series. From the Struggle of Hastings to the Struggle of Bosworth Field, Nicholas Vincent says the storyline of how Britain was created. When William, Duke of Normandy, killed King Harold and seized the throne of Great britain, England's terminology, culture, politics, and laws were altered. Over the next 400 years, under royal dynasties that searched principally to France for motivation and ideas, an English identity was created, based in part upon have difficulty for control over the other parts of the English Isles (Scotland, Wales, and Ireland), partly after rivalry with the kings of France. From these problems emerged English laws and an English Parliament, the English language, English humour, and England's first international empires. Within this thrilling and accessible consideration, Nicholas Vincent not only says the storyline of the go up and fall of dynasties, but investigates the lives and obsessions of a host of lesser women and men, from archbishops to peasants, and from soldiers to scholars, after whose enterprise the cultural and intellectual foundations of Englishness now rest. This the first e book in the four-volume Short Record of Britain which brings together some of the leading historians to share with our nation's history from the Norman Conquest of 1066 for this day. Incorporating the latest research with accessible and enjoyable storytelling, it's the ideal intro for students and standard readers. Nicholas Vincent has printed half a dozen books and some fifty academic articles on various areas of English and European record in the 12th and 13th hundreds of years. He has researched at Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, and Canterbury and now is teacher at the College or university of East Anglia.
