The definitive account for our times of a pivotal moment in English history
Dr Marc Morris is a historian who specializes in the Middle Ages. He studied and taught at the universities of London and Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His other books include a bestselling history of the Norman Conquest and highly acclaimed biographies of King John and Edward I (A Great and Terrible King). He also presented the TV series Castle and wrote its accompanying book. He contributes regularly to other history programmes on radio and television and writes for numerous journals and magazines.
Almost everything you know about 1066 is wrong. And there's no
better historian to put you right than the wonderful Marc
Morris. His new book grips not only as a work of narrative
history but also as a sleuthing exercise . . . Morris has
captured the triumph and the tragedy of this tumultuous era with
verve, insight and a rollicking narrative. * Mail on Sunday
*
Morris gives a compelling account of the invasion by William
the Conqueror in 1066 ... Confidently, he opens with the Bayeux
Tapestry as a powerful contemporary depiction of a famous battle
... Morris sorts embroidery from evidence and provides a
much-needed, modern account of the Normans in England that
respects past events more than present ideologies. -- Iain
Finlayson * The Times *
Marc Morris's lively new book retells the story of the
Norman invasion with vim, vigour and narrative urgency *
Evening Standard *
As every schoolboy knows, or used to, 1066 is the most important
date in English history. But as Marc Morris points out in this
enormously enjoyable book, the Norman conquest was much more
violent, complicated and ambiguous then we usually think.
Carefully steering the reader through the partisan and often
contradictory sources, he paints a vivid picture of the
collapse of the sophisticated Anglo-Saxon realm, and shows how
William the Conqueror relied on sheer terror to establish his
reign. Even a Norman chronicler admitted that William had
"mercilessly slaughtered" the English, "like the scourge of God
smiting them for their sins. -- Dominic Sandbrook * The Sunday
Times, Books of the Year *
I loved it - a suitably epic account of one of the most
seismic and far-reaching events in British history. -- Dan Snow
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
