The Norman Conquest of England: Sources and Documents by R Allen Brown PDF

By R Allen Brown

This feature of files deals an perception into the Norman Conquest of britain from a number of views. it really is divided into 4 elements, every one facing facts of a special sort: literary and narrative resources (including Norman, previous English and Anglo-Norman texts); documentary assets, equivalent to charters, writs and rentals; letters; and the paintings of the interval, mostly, even though no longer completely, from the Bayeux Tapestry. either Anglo-Saxon and Norman England are represented, and Normandy itself is the topic of 1 part. R. Allen Brown's basic creation provides a large context for the cloth, and commentaries are supplied with the files the place helpful, explaining issues of specific importance, whereas a decide on bibliography provides feedback for extra studying. All records are supplied in translation. Reprint; first released in 1984.

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10 Edward, on the other hand, gratefully remembering with what generous munificence, what singular honour, what affectionate intimacy, prince William had treated him in Normandy, by all of which he was even more closely bound to the duke than by ties of kinship; nay more, remembering also with what zeal the duke had helped to restore him from exile to his kingdom, determined as a matter of honour to repay him in equal measure and as an appropriate gift resolved to make him the heir of the crown obtained by his efforts.

It is a region full of forests abounding in wild beasts. Often he diverted himself with the flight of falcons and more often with that of hawks. Not the difficulty of the place, the harshness of winter, nor any other adversity could bend his iron will to break off the siege. The besieged were awaiting relief from [Geoffrey] Martel to whom they had sent for help. They had no wish to give up a lord under whom they could freely amass wealth by brigandage, just as the inhabitants of the town had been seduced by the same attraction.

27 c. xvii, p. 137 Soon afterwards he returned to Normandy,21 and there he ordered the dedication of the abbey church of St Mary at Jumièges. Throughout the holy mystery, reverently celebrated with the utmost religious rejoicing, the duke was present, an eager worshipper with devout heart at these nuptials of the bride of Christ. e. the archbishop of Rouen, John of Avranches, Geoffrey of Coutances, Hugh of Lisieux and Baldwin of Evreux . . 28 William of Jumièges ends his narrative of events with the following sentences, evidently relating to 1070 and the end of the Conqueror's devastating campaign in the north of England during the preceding winter.

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