The Normans

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🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The Norman conquest of England in 1066 was one of the great milestones of English history but there were in fact many Norman invasions and their influence reached from Northern Europe through the Mediterranean and into the Middle East and North Africa. They were a phenomenon emerging in the tenth century but had disappeared by the middle of the thirteenth century. In the brief period though their influence was massive creating new kingdoms, re-shaping societies and leaving behind impressive architectural, linguistic and cultural influences. In this episode, Dan speaks to historian Trevor Rowley author of The Normans: The Conquest of Christendom about their origins, how and why they spread so far, what their legacy is and why their influence was so short-lived.

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0:00.0	I've already welcomed Dan Snow's history yet. The Normans, people in England have
0:04.8	had about the Normans because of the Norman Conquest 1066, seen as one of the great
0:10.6	milestones of English history. Transformation of England to the Anglo-Saxon
0:15.3	Kingdom into a normal one with very different ideas about politics, culture,
0:20.7	religion, architecture and language. Though many Norman invasions, in fact,
0:26.2	in the Normans weren't content with just England, the Normans of course, after England,
0:30.8	pushed in term. Wales, Scotland, Ireland, but all over Christendom, the Normans
0:36.1	made themselves felt, sudden Italy and Sicily, into Crusader states of the
0:40.6	Holy Land and North Africa, the Normans were a phenomenon a thousand years ago.
0:46.0	And there were a few parts of Europe, other Middle East, that did not feel the
0:49.6	impact of their presence. So I thought to Trevor Rowley about the Normans, who
0:54.3	were they? What's going on? Why did this war like people erupt from Northwest
0:58.4	France, where did they come from? And what's it all mean? What's it all mean?
1:01.7	Thanks, what we're always to ask on this podcast. I think you'll find his
1:04.6	answer very interesting. So please check this out. Trevor Rowley coming up on
1:07.6	Normans in the meantime, if you want to go and watch some programs about Norman
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