William the Conqueror -David C Douglas (epub) torrent

William the Conqueror (The English Monarchs)


By David C. Douglas

Published by Yale University Press in 1999

English, 488 pages



In William the Conqueror, Professor Douglas analyzes the causes and the true character of the Norman impact upon England in the eleventh century. The work is both a study of Anglo-Norman history and a biography of a man whose personal career was spectacular, and as reviewers have remarked, it is distinguished by a wealth of scholarship linked to a lucid and agreeable style