HUM 001B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Warrior Kings, Weregild, Feud
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Small clans, a person has a price and can be compensated by someone else: warrior kings. The strongest warrior rules the clan: gift-giving fulfilling military obligations -> giving trophies and merit to measure the accomplishments, not money, kinship: Fought danes and forced them from wessex: norman conquest by william the conqueror, defeated danes and anglo-saxons, officially ended anglo-saxon era and brought the beginning of. Medieval period: how did the norman conquest influence western europe culture, edward the confessor had no male hair. Told harold godwinson of wessex to announce that william the duke of normandy will be king: during his last breath, he changed his mind and told harold. Godwinson to become king instead: william upset and fought to be king, harold won stamford bridge battle, but lost at battle of. Hastings: william won in the end and he brought changes into the culture:
