Did William the Conqueror tie England to the continent?
Genêt, Jean-Philippe
Did William the Conqueror tie England to the continent? - 2019.
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The nature of the relationship between England and the continent, and a fortiori the consequences of the Norman conquest, has haunted British historiography. To understand the impact of the conquest on this relationship, it is important first to evaluate it before 1066: Anglo-Saxon England was not isolated; it had been subject to Carolingian influence and had also seen the early stages of feudalism and Gregorian reform, even if they quickly evolved as a result of the conquest. But beyond military events and political and administrative changes, the essential transformation it led to was the establishment of a new ruling class. However, the bipartite structure of this class produced by the redistribution of the domains of Anglo-Saxon elites paradoxically allowed a rapid re-Anglicization of the aristocracy and its involvement in the administrative and judicial institutions of the kingdom, gradually turning its members away from the continent from which they came.
Did William the Conqueror tie England to the continent? - 2019.
9
The nature of the relationship between England and the continent, and a fortiori the consequences of the Norman conquest, has haunted British historiography. To understand the impact of the conquest on this relationship, it is important first to evaluate it before 1066: Anglo-Saxon England was not isolated; it had been subject to Carolingian influence and had also seen the early stages of feudalism and Gregorian reform, even if they quickly evolved as a result of the conquest. But beyond military events and political and administrative changes, the essential transformation it led to was the establishment of a new ruling class. However, the bipartite structure of this class produced by the redistribution of the domains of Anglo-Saxon elites paradoxically allowed a rapid re-Anglicization of the aristocracy and its involvement in the administrative and judicial institutions of the kingdom, gradually turning its members away from the continent from which they came.
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