The Conquering Family: The Pageant of England, Vol. 1, Volume 1Thomas B. Costain's four-volume history of the Plantagenets begins with THE CONQUERING FAMILY and the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066, closing with the reign of John in 1216. The troubled period after the Norman Conquest, when the foundations of government were hammered out between monarch and people, comes to life through Costain's storytelling skill and historical imagination. |
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... faces were missed from the ranks. Doubts had entered the minds of the barons. They were no longer sure they wanted as ruler a lady of such haughty temper. 6 Now the struggle was on again. The Londoners swelled the ranks of the men from ...
... faces were missed from the ranks. Doubts had entered the minds of the barons. They were no longer sure they wanted as ruler a lady of such haughty temper. 6 Now the struggle was on again. The Londoners swelled the ranks of the men from ...
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... some sources it is said that Henry called Stephen his father during the cross-water negotiations, a statement which seems to carry the hallmark of invention on the face of it. There is still, however, another bit of evidence, and this.
... some sources it is said that Henry called Stephen his father during the cross-water negotiations, a statement which seems to carry the hallmark of invention on the face of it. There is still, however, another bit of evidence, and this.
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... face value. Nothing was done about this. Stephen had twice been close to death in a condition verging on coma. Now for a third time he lost the power of movement and lay as one dead in the citadel at Dover where he had been when the ...
... face value. Nothing was done about this. Stephen had twice been close to death in a condition verging on coma. Now for a third time he lost the power of movement and lay as one dead in the citadel at Dover where he had been when the ...
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... face of a lawyer and recalling every item of a squabble twenty years before over a hide of land, or hearing the whine of a beggar at Bishops-gate and recognizing him as a man-at-arms who had followed him to Wallingford. There are ...
... face of a lawyer and recalling every item of a squabble twenty years before over a hide of land, or hearing the whine of a beggar at Bishops-gate and recognizing him as a man-at-arms who had followed him to Wallingford. There are ...
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Contents
The King and the Archbishop | |
The Invasion of Ireland | |
The Sin of Absalom | |
The Milch Cow of the Third Crusade | |
The Lord of the Manor and the Villein | |
While the Devil Was Loose | |
The Unsolved Mystery | |
John Softsword | |
With Bell Book and Candle | |
Magna Charta | |
Twilight of a Tyrant | |
A Nation Again | |
MelechRic | |
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