The Conquering Family

By: Thomas B. Costain

Published 1983 by Popular Library (first published 1949)

Category: Arts

Pages: 326 pages

ISBN: 9780445085114

Description:
Thomas B. Costain's four-volume history of the Plantagenets begins with THE CONQUERING FAMILY and the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066, closing with the reign of John in 1216.

The troubled period after the Norman Conquest, when the foundations of government were hammered out between monarch and people, comes to life through Costain's storytelling skill and historical imagination.