Comments - I AM TODAY [RE]MINDED BY .... - Gaia Community2024-03-29T06:01:06Zhttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A35719&xn_auth=noNormans of the South
Profe…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2019-03-05:5313775:Comment:357222019-03-05T14:50:46.858ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><span>Professor Robert Bartlett explores the impact of the Normans on southern Europe and</span></p>
<p><span>the Middle East. The Normans spread south in the 11th century, winning control of</span></p>
<p><span>southern Italy and the island of Sicily. There they created their most prosperous…</span></p>
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<p><span>Normans of the South</span></p>
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<p><span>Professor Robert Bartlett explores the impact of the Normans on southern Europe and</span></p>
<p><span>the Middle East. The Normans spread south in the 11th century, winning control of</span></p>
<p><span>southern Italy and the island of Sicily. There they created their most prosperous kingdom,</span></p>
<p><span>where Christianity and Islam co-existed in relative harmony and mutual tolerance. </span></p>
<p><span>It became a great centre of medieval culture and learning. But events in the Middle East</span></p>
<p><span>provoked the more aggressive side of the Norman character. In 1095, the Normans</span></p>
<p><span>enthusiastically answered the Pope's call for holy war against Islam and joined the</span></p>
<p><span>first crusade. They lay siege to Jerusalem and eventually helped win back the holy city</span></p>
<p><span>from the muslims. <strong>This bloody conquest left a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1020799017948349" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deep rift between Christianity and<br/></a></strong></span></p>
<p><span><strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1020799017948349" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Islam which is still being felt to this day</a></strong></span><strong>.</strong></p>
<p></p> Conquest In the second of t…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2019-03-05:5313775:Comment:355472019-03-05T14:06:19.989ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<div id="content" class="style-scope ytd-expander"><div id="description" class="style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer"><span>Conquest <br/><br/>In the second of this three-part series, Professor Robert Bartlett explores the impact of </span><span>the Norman conquest of Britain and Ireland. Bartlett shows how William the Conqueror </span><span>imposed a new aristocracy, savagely cut down opposition and built scores of castles and</span></div>
<div class="style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer"><span>cathedrals to intimidate and control. He also commissioned the Domesday Book, the </span><span>greatest national survey of England that had ever been attempted. England adapted to </span><span>its new masters and both the language and culture were transformed as the Normans </span><span>and the English intermarried. Bartlett shows how the political and cultural landscape of</span></div>
<div class="style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer"><span>Scotland, Wales and Ireland were also forged by the Normans and argues that the </span><span>Normans created the blueprint for colonialism in the modern world.</span></div>
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<p></p> Men from the North • in the…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2019-03-04:5313775:Comment:357212019-03-04T23:12:28.585ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p>Men from the North • <span style="font-size: 13px;">in the first episode of this exciting three-part series, which is unfortunately no longer available, Professor Robert Bartlett explores how the Normans developed from a band of marauding Vikings into the formidable warriors who conquered England in 1066. He tells how the Normans established their new province of Normandy -'land of the northmen' - in northern France. They went on to build some of the finest churches in Europe…</span></p>
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<p>Men from the North • <span style="font-size: 13px;">in the first episode of this exciting three-part series, which is unfortunately no longer available, Professor Robert Bartlett explores how the Normans developed from a band of marauding Vikings into the formidable warriors who conquered England in 1066. He tells how the Normans established their new province of Normandy -'land of the northmen' - in northern France. They went on to build some of the finest churches in Europe and turned into an unstoppable force of Christian knights and warriors, whose legacy is all around us to this day. Under the leadership of Duke William, the</span> <strong style="font-size: 13px;">Normans expanded into the neighbouring </strong><strong style="font-size: 13px;">provinces of northern France</strong><span style="font-size: 13px;">.</span> <strong style="font-size: 13px;">But William</strong><span style="font-size: 13px;">'</span><strong style="font-size: 13px;">s greatest achievement was the conquest of England in 1066</strong><span style="font-size: 13px;">. </span></p>
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<div class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" id="mntl-sc-block_1-0"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The story of William the Conqueror begins at the Château de Falaise, some 35 kilometers (22 miles) south of Caen in Calvados, Normandy. Born in Falaise either in 1027 or 1028, ‘William the Bastard’ as he was known to his contemporaries, was…</span></p>
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<div id="mntl-sc-block_1-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The story of William the Conqueror begins at the Château de Falaise, some 35 kilometers (22 miles) south of Caen in Calvados, Normandy. Born in Falaise either in 1027 or 1028, ‘William the Bastard’ as he was known to his contemporaries, was the illegitimate son of Robert I, aka Robert the Magnificent. The Dukedom of Normandy, created in 911 by Rollo the Viking, was by William’s birth, a powerful force in northern France.<br/><br/></span></p>
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<div id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-2" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">William grew up in Falaise Castle, one of the main residences of the Dukes. It stood high above the surrounding rolling countryside on a hilltop or 'falaise', a force to be reckoned. Here was the source of power, leadership and might. </span></p>
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<div id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-6" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The castle saw prosperous times and disasters; intermittent fighting in the interminable <em>Hundred Years War</em> between the English and the French from 1337-1453, and again in August 1944 when <strong>bombing raids obliterated <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/mit-radiation-laboratory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">80% of Falaise and much of the surviving castle</a></strong></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong> during the final battle of Normandy</strong>.<br/><br/><br/></span></p>
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