William II, better known as William Rufus, was the third son of William the Conqueror and England's king for only 13 years (1087-1100) before he was mysteriously assassinated. In this vivid biography,
On 29 December 1170, Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury was brutally murdered in his cathedral by four knights from the household of his former friend and patron, King Henry II. The horror that the killi
'[for] those who like their early Middle Ages replete with murder and mayhem... Frank Barlow has an epic tale to tell' History Today The family of Earl Godwin of Wessex stands among the most famous in
Frank Barlow's magisterial biography, first published in 1970 and now reissued with new material, rescues Edward the Confessor from contemporary myth and subsequent bogus scholarship. Disentangling v
The latest advances in state-of-the art development in the rapidly evolving area of Molecular Biotechnology, the technology of the new millennium, are detailed in this book. Descriptions of the cuttin
The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio is one of the most discussed sources for the Norman Conquest of England. Its authorship and date cannot be established entirely beyond dispute, but the weight of schola
The anonymous Life of King Edward written about the time of the Norman Conquest, is an important and intriguing source for the history of Anglo-Saxon England in the years just before 1066. It provid
