How To Use Norman conquest In A Sentence
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The characters in The Norman Conquests are at the beck and call of the bedbound mother upstairs.
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After the Norman Conquest the system of feudal landholding required the lord of the manor to provide a court for his tenants.
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The English default position is that the Norman conquest was a national tragedy.
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Yet Angles and Saxons were settlers from the continent, and for 250 years before the Norman Conquest Britain and Ireland were subject to more invasion and settlement from Scandinavia.
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Others such as psalteries or dulcimers (O.E. sealm-glig) may have been in use, although there is only some evidence for these prior to the Norman Conquest.
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Ann was a descendant of a family that could trace its ancestry back to the Norman Conquest.
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After the Norman Conquest the forest became a royal hunting preserve.
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After the Norman Conquest the system of feudal landholding required the lord of the manor to provide a court for his tenants.
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Kidwelly was established on the estuary of the river Gwendraeth in 1106 by Roger, bishop of Salisbury, the justiciar of England, within a short time of the Norman conquest, to defend the road to west Wales.
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Demetia is the district now called Pembrokeshire, where a colony of Normans established themselves after the Norman Conquest.
An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800
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After the Norman Conquest the forest became a royal hunting preserve.
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Between the beloved first lady of Broadway, Angela Lansbury, for her dottily irresistible Madame Arcati in the mediocre revival of Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit, and the amazing Amanda Root for her hilariously exact portrait of British middle-class bossiness and bristling resentment in The Norman Conquests.
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The second main phase of use began immediately after the Norman conquest when William I constructed a motte and bailey castle in the middle of the earlier hillfort.
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Aksum had outlasted Jerusalem and Rome, going down in ruin only eighty years before the Norman conquest of Britain.
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The invasion is known as the Norman Conquest and it is very important for two reasons.
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Ann was a descendant of a family that could trace its ancestry back to the Norman Conquest.
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Incidentally, alderman is an ancient title of rank, dating back beyond the Norman Conquest, indicating someone ruling a province or district.
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No circumstances of the Norman Conquest more forcibly illustrate the humiliation of the conquered people, than the measures by which the invaders imposed their language on the public courts of the country, and endeavored to make it permanently usurp the place of the mother-tongue of the despised multitude; and no fact more signally displays our conservative temper than the general reluctance of English society to relinquish the use of the French words and phrases which still tincture the language of parliament, and the procedures of Westminster Hall, recalling to our minds the insolent domination of a few powerful families who occupied our country by force, and ruled our forefathers with vigorous injustice.
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Hanging Gardens of Fragrance is also tenderness mist cloud drift, Norman conquest of the hurricane has swept through the sea side.
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Norman conquest and its results were of incalculable value to England, by bringing her into relations with the continent, by enduing her with a weight and influence in the affairs of Europe which she could never otherwise have attained, and by giving a new birth to a noble literature which has had no superior in any period of the world's history.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
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There was little alteration in the design of the silver penny in the two centuries following the Norman Conquest.
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'Norman Conquest,' Froude's 'Armada,' or Napier's 'Peninsular War.'
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After the Norman Conquest the forest became a royal hunting preserve.
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The second part talks over from Norman Conquest to "The Great Charter". In the process, Feudal monarchy had sharp conflict and compromise with the power of Christian Religion.
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Motte and bailey castles appeared in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066.
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The parish boundaries were often indistinct until after the Norman conquest, but there may have been 150 of these by 1066.
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Although there were some similarities with earlier Anglo-Saxon practice, it is difficult to deny that the tenurial revolution which followed the Norman Conquest witnessed the introduction of a new system of military obligation.
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From the Regia Anglorum website: The excavations of the seventh century settlements at Cowdery's Down and Charlton, both in Hampshire, uncovered evidence of 'cruck' building, a technique previously not thought to have been used until after the Norman Conquest.
Thatched barns and stave churches: the possibilities of Anglo-Saxon timber architecture
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It arose as a consequence of the Norman conquest and settlement of the Vale of Glamorgan in the early twelfth century.
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Their family can trace its origins back to the Norman Conquest.
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It arose as a consequence of the Norman conquest and settlement of the Vale of Glamorgan in the early twelfth century.
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Their story, told in an Icelandic saga, neatly sums up the English experience of the Norman Conquest.
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After the Norman Conquest the forest became a royal hunting preserve.
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Long before the Norman Conquest in 1066, Saxon farmers in England were measuring distance in rods and furlongs and areas in acres.
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In Britain it was not until after the Norman Conquest that a full system of feudalism came into existence.
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Norman Conquest, being 547 years, and ended in 1066, having been governed by 17 monarchs, during the heptarchy, of whom five were
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The English default position is that the Norman conquest was a national tragedy.
Times, Sunday Times
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His final resting place alongside 19 generations of his family dating back before the Norman conquest.
