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The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results is a six-volume study of the Conquest by Edward A. Freeman, published between 1867 and 1879. Recognised by critics as a major work of scholarship on its first publication, it has since proved unpopular with readers, many of whom were put off by its enormous length and ...
Title page of volume 6 of Freeman's History of the Norman Conquest. His reputation as a historian rests chiefly on his six-volume History of the Norman Conquest (1867–1879), his longest completed work. In common with his works generally, it is distinguished by exhaustiveness of treatment and research, critical ability, and general accuracy.
Freeman, Edward A. (1871). The History of the Norman Conquest of England. Volume IV: The Reign of William the Conqueror. Oxford: Clarendon Press; Mason, Emma (2004). The House of Godwine: The History of a Dynasty. London: Hambledon and London. ISBN 1852853891; Walker, Ian W. (2010).
Douglas, David C., William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact Upon England, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1964 Freeman, Edward A., The Norman Council and the Assembly of Lillebonne, from The History of the Norman Conquest of England, Cambridge University Press, London, 2011 (archive)
Location of major events during the Norman Conquest in 1066 Norman Conquest Fulford Stamford Bridge Hastings Southwark Exeter Harrying of the North Danish attacks Revolt of the Earls The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, French, Flemish, and Breton troops, all led by the Duke of Normandy, later ...
A hoard of Norman-era silver coins unearthed five years ago in southwestern England has become Britain’s most valuable treasure find ever, after it was bought for £4.3 million ($5.6 million) by ...
The 11th-century coin trove, known as the Chew Valley Hoard, is now England’s most valuable treasure find, revealing new information about the historical transition following the Norman Conquest.
E. A. Freeman in his History of the Norman Conquest and A. L. Poole in From Domesday Book to Magna Carta treated it as a confused reference to the Scottish army with which David I invaded England in that year, or to Danish soldiers attached to that army, and Peter Sawyer simply denied the existence of