The 1066 Norman bruisers : how European thugs became english gentry. /
The 1066 Norman Bruisers conjures up the vanished world of England in the late Middle Ages and casts light on one of the strangest quirks in the nation's history, how a bunch of European thugs became the quintessentially English gentry. In 1066, go-getting young immigrant Osbern Fitz Tezzo cros...
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Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK :
Pen & Sword History,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Winner takes all
- The wages of war
- An undone land
- What's in a name?
- Family versus flock
- The path of chivalry
- One Welshman's head
- Blade and trade
- On the King's business
- Floating in blood
- Illicit armour
- Cornered and constrained
- Black smoke
- An unequal contest
- Venom in the veins
- The double legacy
- Fortune's false wheel
- Ashes and dust.