The definitive account for our times of a pivotal moment in English history
Marc Morris is an historian and broadcaster. He studied and taught history at the universities of London and Oxford, and his doctorate on the thirteenth-century earls of Norfolk was published in 2005. In 2003 he presented the highly-acclaimed television series Castle, and wrote its accompanying book. His bestselling biography of Edward I, A Great and Terrible King, was published in 2008.
"Almost everything you know about 1066 is wrong. And there's no
better historian to put you right than the wonderful Marc Morris.
His new book grips not only as a work of narrative history but also
as a sleuthing exercise . . . Morris has captured the triumph and
the tragedy of this tumultuous era with verve, insight and a
rollicking narrative." * Mail on Sunday *
"Morris gives a compelling account of the invasion by William the
Conqueror in 1066 ... Confidently, he opens with the Bayeux
Tapestry as a powerful contemporary depiction of a famous battle
... Morris sorts embroidery from evidence and provides a
much-needed, modern account of the Normans in England that respects
past events more than present ideologies." -- Iain Finlayson * The
Times *
"Marc Morris's lively new book retells the story of the Norman
invasion with vim, vigour and narrative urgency" * Evening Standard
*
"As every schoolboy knows, or used to, 1066 is the most important
date in English history. But as Marc Morris points out in this
enormously enjoyable book, the Norman conquest was much more
violent, complicated and ambiguous then we usually think. Carefully
steering the reader through the partisan and often contradictory
sources, he paints a vivid picture of the collapse of the
sophisticated Anglo-Saxon realm, and shows how William the
Conqueror relied on sheer terror to establish his reign. Even a
Norman chronicler admitted that William had "mercilessly
slaughtered" the English, "like the scourge of God smiting them for
their sins." -- Dominic Sandbrook * The Sunday Times, Books of the
Year *
"I loved it - a suitably epic account of one of the most seismic
and far-reaching events in British history." -- Dan Snow
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