دانلود کتاب Saxon and Norman London

The story of Saxon and Norman London begins amid the ruins of the once great Roman city of Londinium, and culminates at the beginning of the 13th century when the city had risen again to prosperity and prominence. This expanded and revised edition, updated to incorporate the results of much recent research, guides us through this fascinating chapter of the capital’s history, and introduces the reader to a colourful procession of peoples and kings.

They include the Anglo-Saxon settlers who came in the wake of the Roman retreat, the missionaries who first brought Christianity to the English; the raiding Vikings and Danes, and finally the Normans. We also meet the individuals who stamped their names on their times: Alfred the Great, Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror, we learn of the developments in trade and industry which laid the foundations for London’s prosperity - coinage, merchants, crafts and the port; and we see the origins of some of the city’s most famous
buildings - St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Old London Bridge and the great Norman fortress known as the Tower of London.