BRIEF HISTORY OF BRITAIN 1066-1485

In this thrilling and accessible account, Nicholas Vincent not only tells the story of the rise and fall of royal dynasties, but investigates the lives and obsessions of a host of lesser men and women, from archbishops to peasants and soldiers to scholars, upon whose enterprise the social and intellectual foundations of Englishness now rest. This the first book in the four-volume Brief History of Britain which brings together some of the leading historians to tell our nation's story from the Norman Conquest of 1066 to the present day.