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William of Poitiers One of the earliest and most significant victories for knights in the Middle Ages was the Norman conquest of England, and a lot of what we know about that fight comes from William of Poitiers (c. 1020 – 1090). Trained as a knight in his youth, William went on to...
Likewise, King Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England who was killed during the Norman invasion in 1066, was descended from Danish Vikings. Many of the medieval kings of Norway and Denmark were married to English and Scottish royalty and Viking forces were often a factor in ...
Medieval writers transformed tales of an obscure bard into legends of a mighty wizard who put King Arthur on the throne of Camelot.
William Ætheling (Old English: [ˈwiɫiɑm ˈæðeliŋg]; 5 August 1103 – 25 November 1120), commonly called Adelin, sometimes Adelinus, Adelingus, A(u)delin or other Latinised Norman-French variants of Ætheling, was the son of Henry I of England by his wife Matild...
All of England In fact,literarylandmarks are so common in London that “blue plaques(木牌)”have been introduced to show off well-knownliterarysites. One of the more interesting plaques can be found at 221B Baker Street-the apartment of famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes (although we ...
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England 作者:Dan Jones 出版社: Penguin Books; Revised (2014年3月25日) 平装: 560页 语种: 英语 ISBN: 0143124927 条形码: 9780143124924 商品尺寸: 14 x 2.8 x 21.3 cm 商品重量: 431 g 内容简介 The New York Times bestseller that tells th...
Anthony Perkins, an American actor best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's seminal horror film Psycho, was a figure of intrigue and prodigious talent within the realm of Hollywood. Born in New York City on April 4, 1932, to stage actor Osgood Perkins and Janet Essel...
The word livery comes from the Norman French livree, to hand over. What person may have mislaid this button, this little badge of servitude, as he once traversed the ground where now is our well-manured ‘tater patch? To my untutored eye, the back-stamp “Extra superfine – Best ...
Horror tries to be friendly about breaking it up for the night. Bond asks about the motel`s viability; Horror is on the defensive wanting to know where`s that pal of mine, trying to put the attention elsewhere. Consider this passage from Chapter 15: “Those were the last words he spoke...