Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction: On the Character of English History
- 1 Roman Britain
- 2 Saxon England
- 3 The Anglo-Norman State
- 4 Common Law and Charter
- 5 The High Middle Ages
- 6 The Nation-State
- 7 The first Elizabethan Age
- 8 The Civil War
- 9 The Withdrawing Roar
- 10 The Century of Success
- 11 The first British Empire
- 12 The Age of Everything
- 13 War and Peace
- 14 Victorian Ages
- 15 Imperial and Edwardian
- Postscript
- Further Reading
- Index
3 - The Anglo-Norman State
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction: On the Character of English History
- 1 Roman Britain
- 2 Saxon England
- 3 The Anglo-Norman State
- 4 Common Law and Charter
- 5 The High Middle Ages
- 6 The Nation-State
- 7 The first Elizabethan Age
- 8 The Civil War
- 9 The Withdrawing Roar
- 10 The Century of Success
- 11 The first British Empire
- 12 The Age of Everything
- 13 War and Peace
- 14 Victorian Ages
- 15 Imperial and Edwardian
- Postscript
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
‘What's that?’ he said. His eyes had wandered further round the skyline, and where their road mounted he perceived a solitary, broad-spreading oak tree. From its great branches there descended three ropes, and at the ends of them, their feet pointing straight to the earth, their hands apparently clasped behind their backs, were the bodies of three men, their heads cocked at one side with a sort of jaunty defiance, whilst upon the crown of the highest sat a large raven. The nun looked at them with a friendly and cheerful smile.
‘Trèsmeschiants gents, voleurs attrappés par le très noble Sire de Courcy avant son départ.’
‘So Mr Courcy left them when he went away?’ Mr Sorrell asked. ‘Sort of visiting-card, I suppose? But how you can look at them like that so calmly just after you've been saying those pretty prayers, I can't think…’
ford madox ford, Ladies whose Bright EyesSome fine, great and beautiful things came out of the Norman Conquest, but at the time it was a cold-blooded, brutal, and highly successful take-over bid by the most energetic tycoons of the eleventh century. Their titled and enterprising chairman of directors was determined to take over a going concern, and to make it pay handsome profits. The best way to do this, once he had won the battle of Hastings, was to make out that nothing had happened except a change of landlords.
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- A Short History of England , pp. 41 - 60Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1967
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