Part of: History of the Conquest of England by the Normans 2 vols. History of the Conquest of England by the Normans vol. 1

Volume 1 of a 2 volume work. Thierry was a pioneering liberal historian who collected large bodies of primary source material to use in his writings. He is particular remembered for his class analysis based upon the idea of conquest. This work is a classic exposition of this thesis showing the conquest of the Anglo-Saxons by the French Normans.

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History of the Conquest of England by the Normans; Its Causes, and its Consequences, in England, Scotland, Ireland, & on the Continent, translated from the seventh Paris edition, by William Hazlitt (London: H.G. Bohn, 1856). In 2 volumes. Vol. 1.

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They set themselves in armour bright, These mischiefs to prevent; With all the yeomen brave and bold That were in fruitful Kent. At Canterbury did they meet, Upon a certain day, With sword and spear, with bill and bow, And stopt the conqueror’s way. “Let us not yield, like bond-men poor, To…

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