LIBROS DEL AUTOR: keith foord

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  • Harold Godwinson
    Keith Foord
    This book examines and unravels the varied strands of sometimes flimsy evidence about Harold Godwinson’s life, death, family, mythologies, and legacy. Born into a powerful Anglo-Danish family in about 1022, Harold’s father Godwin Wulfnothson became the premier earl of England. His mother was closely related to the Danish Royal family. He became Earl of East Anglia at an early a...
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  • BC to 1066
    Keith Foord
    The book covers from time immemorial until 1066 the history of eastern Sussex which may mistakenly appear to have been a bit of a backwater. It was shaped by its geology and its geography, with the English Channel to the south, the deep Andreadsweald forest to the north,and large embayments to both its east and west. Genetic influences also played their part as various tribes a...
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  • Conquest to Dissolution 1067-1538
    Keith Foord
    In 1066 eastern Sussex was the beachhead for the successful invasion of England by DukeWilliam II of Normandy. He was crowned William I, King of England, at Christmas 1066and 1067 was the first year of the Normanisation of England. 1538 saw the dissolutionof the major monasteries and abbeys including those of Battle and Robertsbridge, and thestart of the English Reformation.How...
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    46,47 €