{"product_id":"2940014881562","title":"Danes, Saxons, and Normans; or, Stories of our Ancestors","description":"Danes, Saxons, and Normans; or, Stories of our Ancestors by J. G. Edgar, author of “Boyhood of Great Men,” “Cavaliers and Roundheads,” etc.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e1863\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[From the Preface.] In the following pages I have endeavoured to tell in a popular way the story of the Norman Conquest, and to give an idea of the principal personages who figured in England at the period when that memorable event took place; and I have endeavoured, I hope not without some degree of success, to treat the subject in a popular and picturesque style, without any sacrifice of historic truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a view of rendering the important event which I have attempted to illustrate, more intelligible to the reader, I have commenced by showing how the Normans under Rolfganger forced a settlement in the dominions of Charles the Simple, whilst Alfred the Great was struggling with the Danes in England, and have recounted the events which led to a connexion between the courts of Rouen and Westminster, and to the invasion of England by William the Norman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt has been truly observed that the history of the Conquest is at once so familiar at first sight, that it appears superfluous to multiply details, so difficult to realize on examination, that a writer feels himself under the necessity of investing with importance many particulars previously regarded as uninteresting, and that the defeat at Hastings was not the catastrophe over which the curtain drops to close the Saxon tragedy, but “the first scene in a new act of the continuous drama.” I have therefore continued my narrative for many years after the fall of Harold and the building of Battle Abbey, and have traced the Conqueror’s career from the coast of Sussex to the banks of the Humber and the borders of the Tweed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the same reason I have narrated the quarrels which convulsed the Conqueror’s own family--have related how son fought against father, and brother against brother--and have indicated the circumstances which, after a fierce war of succession in England, resulted in the peaceful coronation of Henry Plantagenet, and the establishment of that great house whose chiefs were so long the pride of England and the terror of her foes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJ. G. E.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eCH  1. Rolfganger and His Comrades\u003cbr\u003eCH  2. William the Conqueror\u003cbr\u003eCH  3. The Danes in England\u003cbr\u003eCH  4. Earl Godwin\u003cbr\u003eCH  5. Edward the Confessor\u003cbr\u003eCH  6. The King and the King-Maker\u003cbr\u003eCH  7. Matilda of Flanders\u003cbr\u003eCH  8. Siward the Dane\u003cbr\u003eCH  9. Harold, the Saxon King\u003cbr\u003eCH  10. Duke William and His Difficulties\u003cbr\u003eCH  11. Tostig, Son of Godwin\u003cbr\u003eCH  12. Harold Hardrada\u003cbr\u003eCH  13. The Alarm in England\u003cbr\u003eCH  14. The Battle of Stamford Bridge\u003cbr\u003eCH  15. Philip of France\u003cbr\u003eCH  16. The Norman Armament\u003cbr\u003eCH  17. Harold’s Host\u003cbr\u003eCH  18. The Battle of Hastings\u003cbr\u003eCH  19. The Body of Harold\u003cbr\u003eCH  20. The Conqueror and the Kentishmen\u003cbr\u003eCH  21. Edgar Atheling\u003cbr\u003eCH  22. Coronation of the Conqueror\u003cbr\u003eCH  23. The Siege of Exeter\u003cbr\u003eCH  24. Matilda and Brihtrik\u003cbr\u003eCH  25. The Normans in Northumberland\u003cbr\u003eCH  26. Cospatrick and the Conqueror\u003cbr\u003eCH  27. Saxon Saints and Norman Soldiers\u003cbr\u003eCH  28. The Reduction of Chester\u003cbr\u003eCH  29. Lanfranc of Pavia\u003cbr\u003eCH  30. Edwin and Morkar\u003cbr\u003eCH  31. Ivo Taille-Bois\u003cbr\u003eCH  32. Hereward the Saxon\u003cbr\u003eCH  33. Building of Battle Abbey\u003cbr\u003eCH  34. Malcolm Canmore\u003cbr\u003eCH  35. The Death of Cospatrick\u003cbr\u003eCH  36. Atheling and His Allies\u003cbr\u003eCH  37. Fitzosborne and de Gael\u003cbr\u003eCH  38. Waltheof, Son of Siward\u003cbr\u003eCH  39. Wulstan, Bishop of Worcester\u003cbr\u003eCH  40. Robert Curthose\u003cbr\u003eCH  41. The Conqueror and His Heir\u003cbr\u003eCH  42. Odo, Bishop of Bayeux\u003cbr\u003eCH  43. Doomsday Book\u003cbr\u003eCH  44. The Conqueror’s Death\u003cbr\u003eCH  45. The Burial at Caen\u003cbr\u003eCH  46. The Red King\u003cbr\u003eCH  47. Rufus and the Jews\u003cbr\u003eCH  48. Rufus and the Scots\u003cbr\u003eCH  49. Robert de Moubray\u003cbr\u003eCH  50. Henry Beauclerc\u003cbr\u003eCH  51. The Death of Rufus\u003cbr\u003eCH  52. A Change of Fortune\u003cbr\u003eCH  53. Curthose at the Crusade\u003cbr\u003eCH  54. Beauclerc and Curthose\u003cbr\u003eCH  55. After Tinchebray","brand":"Denise Henry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121332109552,"sku":"2940014881562","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014881562_p0.jpg?v=1763616528","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014881562","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}