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Conquest & Anarchy 1: Before the Normans
🕑 Added 2024-07-10 14:26:58 +0000 UTCpatrons, here's your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. we answered questions from Evelyn and Dog God in this one.
folks, we're back with a new series, this one covering the Norman Conquest of England and then the Anarchy that followed about seventy years later. we were originally just going to do the Anarchy but decided to do the Conquest as well because it's kind of a big deal. this episode serves as an introduction to pre-Norman England and the Normans themselves. we talk about prehistoric England, Roman Britain, the Heptarchy, Christianization of the island, Viking invasions, and more. then we turn to discuss how the warlike Normans came to dominate the northwestern part of modern-day France, all leading up to the reign of a bastard named William.
a link to the podcast guest spot Eleanor mentions: https://sceneonradio.org/capitalism/
Comments
Philip Manzi
Ok but has anyone put forth a theory of Roman expansion based on patricians continuously needing to find jobs for idiot nephews and tedious cousins?
Justin Buell
Another thing that pisses me off about the way people are interacting with digital info: when people search for particular things in documents, they rely EXCLUSIVELY on CTRL+F. What if you phrase you're looking for isn't recognized by the OCR feature? What if the information is there, but it's not phrased exactly the way you expect? Read the Table of Contents, you lazy stupid fucking asses!
