Norman Conquest Quotes

• Еhere's no doubt at all that the Norman conquest led to the hugely concentrated land ownership patterns that we still see in Britain today. Some of Britain's biggest landowners are still direct descendants of Norman barons. And given the impact that Britain has had on the world over the past few hundred years, you could perhaps say this was a global issue. History is always with us.

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  Paul Kingsnorth

  Past   Years   Land  

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Hey, I can cook." "How do you know? You haven't eaten anything since before the Norman Conquest." "I've never had any complaints." "Given the infants you date, I'm not surprised. You could serve them sawdust and they'd eat it with a smile, dazzled by the swing of your broadsword." "What do you know about the swing of my broadsword?" "More than I care to. Women talk." Which shut him up, as he started wondering who'd said what.

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  Angela Knight

  Swings   Hey   Sawdust  

  Angela Knight (2011). “Master of Shadows”, p.67, Penguin

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• Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada.

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  C. S. Lewis

  Believe   Mean   Thinking  

  740

• I do think that the legacy of the Norman conquest is still strong in Britain. Our hereditary monarchy, our established church, our ancient county structures, though hollowed out in many ways, are a direct result of what happened in 1066.

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  Paul Kingsnorth

  Strong   Thinking   Church  

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible.

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  Edward Jenks

  Forever   Done   May  

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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