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Frank Merry Stenton.
William the Conqueror and the Rule of the Normans.

Published New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1908.
Series: Heroes of the Nations.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; half-bound with leather spine.
Printer: Knickerbocker Press, New York.
Size: 138x190x36pp.
Page count: text x,518pp; plates 29pp; 1 foldout.
Main language: English.
Overall condition poor to fair: ex‑lib. West Hartlepool; leather spine very worn and frayed; boards grubby, frayed at the edges and corners; page edges grubby, evidence of extensive handling internally, many pages worn or stained; the usual library marks & stamps, and at least 3 pages have some pencilled underlining.


This item £6.00
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[Various POD edns. available]
Weight without packaging: 665g.

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Contents: Minority of Duke William & its results; Rebellion & invasion; Conquest of Maine & the Breton war; Problem of the English succession; Preliminaries of the Conquest & the Battle of Hastings; From Hastings to York; Danish invasion & sequel; Central years of the English reign; Last years of the Conqueror; William & the Church; Administration; Domesday Book.

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: 2
Illustrations: 13 text figures showing various coins, and 21 pages of plates, all monochrome
Maps & plans: 8 (printed as plates)
Genealogies: 4
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: pp
Index: yes


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