The Norman-French period.
A.D. 1066 to about 1350
Made by Dilnoza Xakimova
Plan
- The Normans
- Social results of the Conquest
- The Union of the races and languages. Latin, French, and English
- The Result for Poetry
- The English dialects
The Normans who conquered England were originally
members of the same stock as the 'Danes' who had
harried and conquered it in the preceding centuries—
the ancestors of both were bands of Baltic and
North Sea pirates who merely happened to emigrate
in different directions; and a little farther back the
Normans were close cousins, in the general Germanic
family, of the Anglo−Saxons themselves. The exploits of this whole
race of Norse sea−kings make one of the most remarkable chapters in the history of medieval Europe. In the ninth and tenth centuries they mercilessly ravaged all the coasts not only of the West but of all Europe
from the Rhine to the Adriatic. 'From the fury of
the Norsemen, good Lord, deliver us!' was a
regular part of the litany of the unhappy French.
The Normans
They settled Iceland and Greenland and prematurely discovered America; they established themselves as the ruling aristocracy in Russia, and as the imperial body−guard and chief bulwark of the Byzantine empire at Constantinople; and in the eleventh century they conquered southern Italy and Sicily, whence in
the first crusade they pressed on with unabated
vigor to Asia Minor. Those bands of
them with whom we are here concerned, and
who became known distinctively as Normans,
fastened themselves as settlers, early in the
eleventh century, on the northern shore of
France, and in return for their acceptance of
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