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The English and the Normans

by Hugh M. Thomas · 2003

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This work challenges the complacency about the inevitability of assimilation and of the Anglicization of Normans after 1066. Drawing on a variety of sources, it provides a case study in pre-modern ethnic relations, shedding light on some important developments in English history.

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adult
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long · 474 pages

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