Marjorie Chibnall

Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1990Author: Marjorie ChibnallISBN-10: 0851152864ISBN-13: 9780851152868Publisher: Boydell PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/04/1991Pages: 296Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d

This is the first comprehensive and fully documented study of the Empress Matilda to be published in English. Much of the serious work on her life and historical importance has never been translated from German, and almost all has concentrated on the years of...

The debate on the Norman Conquest is still ongoing. Because of the great interest that has always been shown in the subject of conquest and its aftermath, interpretations have been numerous and conflicting; students bewildered by controversies may find this book a useful guide...

This book provides the most comprehensive examination of the Normans available, examining the emergence of the Normans, their characteristics as a group, and their various achievements in war, culture and civilization.Author: Marjorie ChibnallISBN-10: 0631186719ISBN-13: 9780631186717Publisher: Wiley-BlackwellLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/04/2001Pages: 208Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.31h x 6.23w...

A wise, learned, gracefully written account of the Anglo-Norman world and its most remarkable chronicler.' SPECULUM Orderic Vitalis, born near Shrewsbury in 1075 and sent as a child oblate to the Norman abbey of Saint-Evroult, wrote one of the most vivid and important medieval...