Their suspicion was rooted in the fact that the Normans spoke of her as "la Royne", which implied that she was a female sovereign in her own right. This was shocking to her new subjects: previous English queens had been referred to merely as "the king's wife". Undeterred, Matilda ...
A short while later we reach the church of St Peter and St Paul in Checkendon, a mild detour but well worth it – it’s a Grade 1 listed building with parts dating back to the 12th century (made by the Normans) with Gothic additions. So quite old then. Before entering I see R...
Who did the Visigoths sack?The Visigoths:The Visigoths were an influential group from the 5th century AD until the 8th century AD. They were originally an East Germanic people who settled in Spain and became culturally Romanized, to the point that they could not be distinguished from other ...
The men who became the first Normans were Vikings, hailing from Nordic regions where shapeshifters such as werewolves and werebears were an accepted aspect of life. In 911 Rollo the Ganger, often acknowledged as a werewolf or giant, signed a treaty with the French king Charles the Simple ...
So, by the 13thcentury the Normans generously presented the Brits with their very own alphabet, and many of the world’s most remarkable English writers went full-tilt into turning out their extraordinary literature. In my Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, a 1,000-page tome, there is only a ...
So, by the 13thcentury the Normans generously presented the Brits with their very own alphabet, and many of the world’s most remarkable English writers went full-tilt into turning out their extraordinary literature. In my Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, a 1,000-page tome, there is only a ...