Silk and the Sword: The Women of the Norman Conquest by Sharon Bennett Connolly

Silk and the Sword: The Women of the Norman Conquest

Sharon Bennett Connolly

304 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced

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Everyone knows about the events of 1066; the story of invasion and conquest. But what of the women? Harold II of England had been with Edith Swan-neck for twenty years but in 1066, in order to strengthen his hold on the throne, he married Ealdgyth...

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