Growing Up with the Norman Conquest Author:Alfred Duggan The place is England and the time is July 1087, nearly twenty-one years after the Battle of Hastings, the start of the Norman Conquest. Re-creating one typical day in this last summer of William the Conqueror's reign, Alfred Duggan gives a meticulous, spirited account of the lives of the children of a Norman baron and a Saxon landowner, the chi... more »ldren of peasants and a London family, and boy novices in a cloister. He describes the details of their daily life -- food, clothing, houses, travel -- and shows us what it was like to live at a time when two cultures, Norman and Saxon, were struggling to adapt to each other.