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Topic: Anarchy, the, or The Nineteen Year Winter, or English Dynastic War

Anarchy, the, or The Nineteen Year Winter, or English Dynastic War

Years: 1135 - 1154

The Anarchy or The Nineteen Year Winter refers to a period of English history during the reign (1135–1154) of the Norman King, Stephen of England, which is characterized by civil war and unsettled government.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle describes this as the time during which "Christ and his saints slept".

"History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends."

― Mark Twain, The Gilded Age (1874)