#Norman England

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Wells Cathedral by Roy Llowarch Via Flickr: Wells Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Wells, Somerset, England, dedicated to St Andrew the Apostle and seat of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, whose cathedra it holds as mother church of the Diocese of Bath and Wells. Built in 1176–1450 to replace an earlier church on the site since 705, it is moderately sized for an English cathedral. Its broad west front and large central tower are dominant features. It has been called "unquestionably one of the most beautiful" and "most poetic" of English cathedrals

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The Wreck of the Blanche Nef — by Princess Louise

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Paul Sandby RA (English, 1731-1809) The Norman Gate and Deputy Governor's House, ca.1765 Yale Center for British Art, New Haven

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New forest, Hampshire, England, 1936 - by Norman C. Deck (1882 - 1980), Australian

[wonder-worker]

Thinking about Elizabeth Woodville as a gothic heroine is making me go insane. She entered the story by overturning existing social structures, provoking both ire and fascination. She married into a dynasty doomed to eat itself alive. She was repeatedly associated with the supernatural, both in terms of love and death. Her life was shaped entirely by uncanny repetitions - two marriages, two widowhoods, two depositions, two flights to sanctuary, two ultimate reclamations - all paralleling and ricocheting off each other. Her plight after 1483 exposed the true rot at the heart of the monarchy - the trappings of royalty pulled away to reveal nothing, a never-ending cycle of betrayal and war, the price of power being the (literal) blood of children. She lived past the end of her family name, she lived past the end of her myth. She ended her life in a deeply anomalous position, half-in and half-out of royal society. She was both a haunting tragedy and the ultimate survivor who was finally free.

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The Norman conquest of England, 11th century.

by atlas_cartography

[fumblingmusings]

Scotland and England like to take digs at each other so often with shit like: 'Hey, remember when Edinburgh was part of Northumbria for 300 years?'

'Oh, sure. Remember how I saved your Princess Margaret from the Normans, and now she's a Saint? My saint. Not yours.'

'Oh, yes, her Englishness truly was divine. She's as Scottish as her kids Edward, Edmund, Ethelred, Edgar, and Edith. Such Scottish names - just like their dad Maol Chaluim would have wanted.'

'And remind me which one of those kids became a Queen of England and a better ruler than her dumbarse husband?'

'She married a Norman, of course he was a dumbarse. They're all fucking Norman - the Bruces and the Stewarts were Norman in case you forgot, and you caved in the second they came to settle in the lowlands.'

'Cause fighting them worked so well for you. Remember that time they killed everyone in your north?'

'Haha prick. Good times for you I'm sure.'

'Haha. It could have been better.'

Then they both kind of go man fuck the Normans and the conversation dies a quiet death.

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Carved Norman doorway at Church Kilpeck, Herefordshire, ENGLAND

[georgeivsexpiredbrandy]

This is most certainly NOT how the Norman Invasion looked like!!! 😞

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The Normans were actually mostly Viking descendants, with William himself being a descendant of one such Viking. The French had little to no involvement, and the Duchy of Normandy had been given to the Vikings decades prior.

This is for THOSE anti-frukers that use the arguement of "oh france conquered and raised england so they can't be shipped" like I'm pretty fucking sure Francypants is NOT William I??? The French never really got close to conquering England, despite what they might tell you — Remember, French people are not to be trusted — and, if anything, it was actually England that nearly conquered them!

Overall, I spend too much time researching English history (;´д｀)

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Day 27: Marie de France, poet and (maybe) abbess. Aside from her name and place of origin, her identity is unknown, though she was potentially a relative of King Henry II of England and/or an abbess. She adapted Breton narrative poems into French verse and translated Aesop’s Fables from Old English.

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[royllowarch]

Wells Cathedral by Roy Llowarch Via Flickr: Wells Cathedral in Somerset England. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Cathedral

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Robert the Bruce and Sir Henry de Bohun 

[corvidkusnos]

still annoys me when people say shit like "these french words were stolen/bastardised by the british" as if it wasn't literally the french cunt william the conqueror who came over to england and conquered this shithole and killed people who didn't want to be more french and christian

yall brought your language here you fuckin assholes shut up