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The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

byCharles Spencer

In The White Ship, Charles Spencer presents a biographical portrait centered on conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream. The narrative identifies the people, decisions, and pressures that shaped the subject, then places those developments within the connected fields of biography & autobiography and history. Throughout, the author balances an accessible narrative with the complexity needed to understand motives, constraints, and disputed interpretations. What emerges is a nuanced account of the subject, its immediate consequences, and its wider meaning.

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

304

ISBN

9780008296803