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David C. Douglas.
William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact upon England.
Published London: Eyre Methuen, 1977 reprint (originally issued 1964.
Series: English Monarchs.
ISBN 0413383806.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), Bungay.
Size: 155x232x23mm.
Page count: text xii,476pp; plates 1.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some scuffs and scratches on the covers, some wear at the edges and corners; page edges a little grubby; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

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[California U.P. edn. in print at $24.95/£16.96]
Weight without packaging: 636g.

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Contents: Birth & inheritance; Accession & minority (1035-47); War for survival (1047-60); Duke & new aristocracy; Ecclesiastical revival; Rule of Duke William; Normandy & England (1035-65) Conquest (1066-67); Defence of the Anglo-Norman kingdom (1067-85); Royal administration; King in the church; End of he reign (1085-87); Epilogue.
Appendices: Birth of William & connections of Herleve; William's campaigns 1047-54; Marriage of William & Matilda; Sequence of events in 1066; Campaigns 1073-81; Poisoning as a method of political action in 11th-c. Normandy.

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: monochrome frontispiece
Maps & plans: 1
Genealogies: 9
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 21pp
Index: yes

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