THE NORMAN CONQUEST and its impact on cultural, economic & political development of England Аксянова А. Иванова А. II МЭО 7 ак. гр. 2013 г.
THE INVASION
CLAIMANTS TO THE ENGLISH THRONE Harold Godwin William, the Duke of Normandy Harold Hardrada
SEPTEMBER 25, 1066 - BATTLE AT STAMFORD BRIDGE October 14, 1066 - Battle of Hastings
NEW RULING CLASS, NEW CULTURE, NEW LANGUAGE Lands & vassals. Northumbria.
NEW RULING CLASS, NEW CULTURE, NEW LANGUAGE Lands & vassals. Ownership of land. v 1/7 th of the country - The Royal Domain v 1420 estates – Dominion of William I v 1700 estates - Monasteries
NEW RULING CLASS, NEW CULTURE, NEW LANGUAGE Lands & vassals. Feudal Principles. Hierarchy. v Every man has a lord. Every lord has land. v “My vassal’s vassal is not my vassal”
NEW RULING CLASS, NEW CULTURE, NEW LANGUAGE The Domesday Book. 1086.
NEW RULING CLASS, NEW CULTURE, NEW LANGUAGE Magna Carta and the beginning of Parliament, June 10, 1215
CASTLES. 78.
NORMAN ARCHITECTURE St. John's Chapel Westminster Abbey
NEW RULING CLASS, NEW CULTURE, NEW LANGUAGE First Universities. Oxford. 1168. Cambridge. 1209.
ENGLISH LITERATURE The epic The romance The fable The ballad The fabliau
Tristan and Iseult as depicted by Herbert Draper
THE ARTHURIAN LEGENDS v Collected in the Historia Regum Britanniae by Geoffrey of Monmouth and Wace who translated it into French. v In the 15 th century Thomas Malory collected Arthurian stories and arranged them in twenty books. v To modern readers, Arthurian legend has become the mirror of the ideal of medieval knighthood and chivalry.
THE ARTHURIAN LEGENDS
ROBIN HOOD v Ballads about Robin Hood were composed and sung throughout the 12 th and the 13 th centuries. v Robin Hood was a strong, brave and skilful archer. He was presumably a Saxon nobleman who had been ruined by the Normans. Together with his Merry Men they fought against Norman nobles and appeared wherever the poor needed help.
THE CANTERBURY TALES v Written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14 th century v The book is about a group of pilgrims traveling from London to the tomb of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. Portrait of Chaucer from the 17 th century. A woodcut from William Caxton's second edition of The Canterbury Tales printed in 1483
Canterbury Cathedral Thomas Becket by Lucas Vorsterman
NEW RULING CLASS, NEW CULTURE, NEW LANGUAGE
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