From Alfred to Henry III, 871-1272

Name: From Alfred to Henry III, 871-1272
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ISBN: 9780393003628

ISBN-10: 0393003620

ISBN-13: 9780393003628

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Authors: Christopher Brooke

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The 400 years covered by this volume saw two Danish invasions and the Norman Conquest of England. Each conquest carried with it extensive political and social changes. Alfred began the work of creating a unified kingdom out of the shambles of the smaller kingdoms that had fallen under Viking raids. The ninth and tenth centuries saw the settlement of the Danes and the eleventh the emergence of a strong monarchy under the Danish King Cnut. "With the English kingdom grew up the first semblance of national institutions," writes Professor Brooks--institutions of central and local government which made the English monarchy among the most mature in the Europe of its time.... These established…

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List price: $23.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/17/1966
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 308
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.80" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Christopher Brooke, the former Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge University and a life fellow of Conville and Caius College, Cambridge, is a leading scholar of medieval history. He is a fellow of the British Academy and corresponding fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.