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England's First Castle - The Story of a 1000-Year-Old Mystery (Paperback, New)
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England's First Castle - The Story of a 1000-Year-Old Mystery (Paperback, New)
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List price R443
Loot Price R361
Discovery Miles 3 610
You Save R82 (19%)
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In early September 1051, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recorded that
'the French had built a castle', the first Norman castle in
England. Yet for centuries the circumstances behind the
construction of this castle and its actual location have remained a
mystery until now. In the first ever account of this subject, Terry
Wardle looks at the history behind the building of the castle and
the man who built it, the Norman soldier Osbern. The book looks at
the troubled history of eleventh-century England, with the growing
threat from Scandinavian raiders and the civil conflict within
England between the monarchy and powerful Anglo-Saxon families, and
traces the events which allowed a relatively unknown Norman soldier
to snatch his place in history with the building of the first
Norman castle in England, fifteen years before the Norman Conquest
in 1066.
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