The Century of Calamity: England in the Long Eleventh Century

The Century of Catastrophe is the story of a nation's fall, and the men who brought it about.It is the story of how Æþelræd the Unready's calamitous and vicious rule took England to the brink of collapse; of how Canute subsumed the country within a northern empire, which disintegrated under his feckless sons; of how Edward the Confessor's wise and prudent rule held the realm together for a quarter of a century; and of how William of Normandy destroyed its way of life forever. It is a story ...