Introduced in the wake of the Norman Conquest, the murdrum fine was meant to protect Norman settlers from revenge killings.

Archaeologists from Cardiff University and the University of Sheffield have combined the latest scientific methods to offer new insights into life during the Norman Conquest of England. Until now, the ...

Silver pennies depicting William (left) and Harold (right)(Pippa Pearce/© The Trustees of the British Museum) On October 14, 1066, William the Conqueror (r. 1066–1087) defeated the last Anglo-Saxon ...

"The Norman Conquests" is a trilogy of plays by the British playwright Alan Ayckbourn, and although I'm far from qualified to comment on Ayckbourn's craft, I'd be doing you a disservice if I didn't ...

THIS month of October completes the eighth century since the battle of Hastings, perhaps the most important action that the modern world has known, with the single exception of the conflict that ...

The Bayeux Tapestry has long been treated as a spectacular picture book of conquest, a 70-metre strip of embroidery that freezes the Norman invasion in thread. Now a new wave of scholarship argues ...

DEFENSE WONKS CALL IT "The last supper." Secretary of Defense Bill Perry, then No. 2 at the Pentagon, gathered together the nation's biggest arms contractors one night. Like a commander addressing a ...