HTST 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Domesday Book, Investiture Controversy, Middle French
6 Mar 2018
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Introduction: assess the consequences of the invasions on european political history, discuss continuities and changes in social organization, argue whether there a new order was in place in the mid-late 11th c, britain and the danelaw. Britain and the vikings, a reminder: raids on isolated locations, raids on urban and commercial locations, phase of settlement c. 880, 890 formation of the danelaw. Unity against the danes: affirmation of the kings of wessex: alfred the great (r. 871, 899) called "king of the. The norman conquest: 1065: edward the confessor died without an heir, would have promised the crown of england to both william, duke of normandy and. Harold godwinson his brother in law, and earl of wessex: edward was a figure at court as william grew up, william married the daughter of the count of flanders (skilled militarily, rich, close to. Freeman (12% of pop: villans or villeins (serfs - 40%)
