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Conquered

Name: Conquered
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
SKU: 9781788314503
Price: 32.36 EUR
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The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England

Автор: PARKER ELEANOR

Език:

Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: Bloomsbury Publishing

Наличност: Външен склад

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"Outstanding." - The Sunday Times"Beautifully written." The Times"Superbly adroit." The Spectator"Ex...

Информация за книгата

Автор

PARKER ELEANOR

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2022

страници

272

EAN

9781788314503

ISBN

9781788314503

Enbook ID

19306994

Издател

Bloomsbury Publishing

Теглоt

546

Размери

430 x 242 x 21

Пълно описание

"Outstanding." - The Sunday Times
"Beautifully written." The Times
"Superbly adroit." The Spectator
"Excellent." BBC History Magazine

The Battle of Hastings and its aftermath nearly wiped out the leading families of Anglo-Saxon England – so what happened to the children this conflict left behind?

Conquered offers a fresh take on the Norman Conquest by exploring the lives of those children, who found themselves uprooted by the dramatic events of 1066. Among them were the children of Harold Godwineson and his brothers, survivors of a family shattered by violence who were led by their courageous grandmother Gytha to start again elsewhere. Then there were the last remaining heirs of the Anglo-Saxon royal line – Edgar Ætheling, Margaret, and Christina – who sought refuge in Scotland, where Margaret became a beloved queen and saint. Other survivors, such as Waltheof of Northumbria and Fenland hero Hereward, became legendary for rebelling against the Norman conquerors. And then there were some, like Eadmer of Canterbury, who chose to influence history by recording their own memories of the pre-conquest world.

From sagas and saints’ lives to chronicles and romances, Parker draws on a wide range of medieval sources to tell the stories of these young men and women and highlight the role they played in developing a new Anglo-Norman society. These tales – some reinterpreted and retold over the centuries, others carelessly forgotten over time – are ones of endurance, adaptation and vulnerability, and they all reveal a generation of young people who bravely navigated a changing world and shaped the country England was to become.