Today's installment concludes Domesday Book Completed,our selection from Popular History of England by Charles Knight published in 1860.If you
Castle-Building in England
"We command that all earls, barons, knights, sergeants . . . be always ready to perform to us their whole service, in manner as they owe it to us . .
Daily Life in Norman England
The Domesday Book affords us many curious glimpses of the condition of the people in cities and burghs.Continuing Domesday Book Completed,our
Norman Tyranny in England
The extreme severity of the Forest Laws was chiefly enforced to prevent the assemblage of Saxons in those vast wooded spaces.Continuing Domesday
Domesday Book Completed
This series has five easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: The Classes of Feudal England.IntroductionWhen William the Conqueror
Battle of Hastings Aftermath
Many a pathetic legend was told in after years respecting the discovery and the burial of the corpse of our last Saxon King.Today's installment
Battle of Hastings Ends
The English were in great trouble at having lost their King and at the Duke's having conquered and beat down the standard; but they still fought on,
Individual Combats
Why did the English not have archers of their own?Continuing Normans Conquer England,our selection from Historical and Critical Account of the
Hand-to-Hand Combat
From nine o'clock in the morning, when the combat began, till three o'clock came, the battle was up and down, this way and that, and no one knew who