A Brief History of Britain 1066-1485.nfo
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Title: A Brief History of Britain 1066-1485
Author: Nicholas Vincent
Read By: Roger Davis
Genre: History: European
Copyright: 2012
Audiobook Copyright: 2012
Publisher: Audible Ltd
Release date: 2013-01-07
Duration: 18 hrs and 1 min
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Encoded Codec: AAC / iTunes 11.1.4
Encoded Sample Rate: 22050 Hz
Encoded Channels: 2
Encoded Bitrate: 64 kbits VBR
Book Description
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From the Norman Conquest to the Battle of Bosworth Field - how Britain was invaded and became a nation. The first volume
in the stunning four-volume Brief History of Britain series. From the Battle of Hastings to the Battle of Bosworth
Field, Nicholas Vincent tells the story of how Britain was born. When William, Duke of Normandy, killed King Harold and
seized the throne of England, England’s language, culture, politics, and law were transformed.
Over the next 400 years, under royal dynasties that looked principally to France for inspiration and ideas, an English
identity was born, based in part upon struggle for control over the other parts of the British Isles (Scotland, Wales,
and Ireland), in part upon rivalry with the kings of France. From these struggles emerged English law and an English
Parliament, the English language, English humour, and England’s first overseas empires. In this thrilling and accessible
account, Nicholas Vincent not only tells the story of the rise and fall of dynasties, but investigates the lives and
obsessions of a host of lesser men and women, from archbishops to peasants, and from soldiers to scholars, upon whose
enterprise the social and intellectual foundations of Englishness now rest.
This the first book in the four-volume Brief History of Britain which brings together some of the leading historians to
tell our nation’s story from the Norman Conquest of 1066 to the present day. Combining the latest research with
accessible and entertaining storytelling, it is the ideal introduction for students and general readers.
Nicholas Vincent has published half a dozen books and some fifty academic articles on various aspects of English and
European history in the 12th and 13th centuries. He has studied at Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, and Canterbury and now is
professor at the University of East Anglia.
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