Navy cloth binding with red titleplate and gilt title on the spine. Gilt coin on the front board.

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In “William the Conqueror, ” Professor Douglas analyses the causes and the true character of the Norman impact upon England in the eleventh century. The work is both a study of Anglo-Norman history and a biography of a man whose personal career was spectacular, and as reviewers have remarked, it is distinguished by a wealth of scholarship linked to a lucid and agreeable style.