How To Use Anglo-norman In A Sentence
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The Anglo-Norman fabliaux are preserved in manuscripts that are miscellaneous literary anthologies.
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In Scotland, the Anglo-Normans were one more element in an already hybrid kingdom.
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The land taken - and taken is the word - by the Anglo-Normans, was divided up in the usual way and given to their knights, as reward for military service.
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There was a baronial fireplace and an Anglo-Norman archway in the big stone barn.
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Stephen was brought up at the court of his uncle Henry I, becoming one of the wealthiest of the Anglo-Norman magnates.
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Southern Wales came under the sway of the Anglo-Norman marcher lords, but the north was a different matter.
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The expansion of Anglo-Norman lords in Ireland took place through alliances with Irishmen whom it is anachronistic to label renegades or traitors.
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Anglo-Norman England was ‘governed’ by local officers: the sheriff and the reeve, based within the shire.
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Did this mean that Aquitaine was going to be permanently subordinated to the ruler of the Anglo-Norman realm?
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The abbreviated text could be in Latin or Anglo-Norman French and was usually accompanied by a commentary.
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A number of Anglo-Norman monasteries received Norman monks, not least in order to further the Conquest.
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The problem was not merely the barbarity and wilfulness of the native Irish, but that the initial grants to the original Anglo-Norman adventurers had been too generous.
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These were the fortified residences of local lords and chieftains, both of the native Irish families and the descendants of the Anglo-Norman settlers.
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There was a baronial fireplace and an Anglo-Norman archway in the big stone barn.
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This translation from a medieval Anglo-Norman source gives a less cynical view on it.
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It ends with the legendary King Arthur, a Celtic hero adopted by the Anglo-Normans.
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‘Chaucer would have thoroughly absorbed the language of the streets, that rich polyglot mixture of Latin patois, Anglo-Norman phraseology and English demotic,’ he writes.
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The term coroner is derived from the Anglo-Norman word, corouner.
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Saxon _bynder_, through the Anglo-Norman _panter_, and that _derrick_ is from _Derrick_ the hangman, I may add that these words are unknown in the nautical technology of any other language.
Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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It was only by slow degrees that the native laws and customs were ousted by Anglo-Norman usages and the machinery of feudalism.
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If, as I think may fairly be done, the glory of the Legend be chiefly claimed for none of these, but for English or Anglo-Norman, it can be done in no spirit of national _pleonexia_, but on a sober consideration of all the facts of the case, and allowing all other claimants their fair share in the matter as subsidiaries.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
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The ceremony in this Anglo-Norman setting was replete with references to Charlemagne, Napoleon, and Churchill.
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Texts: "The poetical Romances of Tristan in French, in Anglo-Norman, and in Greek," ed. Francisque Michel, London, 1835-9, 3 vols. 8vo.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
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More ominously, the severance of the Anglo-Norman reign had left John free to turn his attention to Wales and Ireland.
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He traced the origins of the Order in Ireland back to their arrival with their Anglo-Norman overlords and patrons in the twelfth century.
