Norman Conquest
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Conquista normanda
- The Norman Conquest of England in 1066 also led to extensive borrowings from French.
- the Norman Conquest in 1066
- the Norman Conquest of England
It's now clear that the these Viking invasions, the Norman Conquest, didn't really change the gene pool of Britain very much.
- It's now clear that the these Viking invasions, the Norman Conquest, didn't really change the gene pool of Britain very much.
Examples
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3000 words on the short-term results of the Norman Conquest.
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In my village, a resident has calculated that 25,000 bodies have been buried in the churchyard since the Norman Conquest, yet it contains only a few dozen stones, those of the better-off, and none older than the eighteenth century.
Academic text (1997) -
Seems to have come over from France during the Norman Conquest.
Fiction book (1994) -
We go back, in the common law tradition, to 1066 with the Norman Conquest of Britain.
Academic text (2001) -
The Norman Conquest left its stamp on English culture and politics in ways that are still with us; its impact on the development of the English language was especially strong.
Blog text (4) -
And so we've traced English history from the Norman Conquest to the Industrial Revolution, whose birthplace was in England.
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It's now clear that the these Viking invasions, the Norman Conquest, didn't really change the gene pool of Britain very much.
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Ever since the days of the Norman Conquest, it has mixed an "imported" French with a "native" Anglo-Saxon and has always been willing to adopt elements from other languages, including Latin and Greek.
Academic text (1998) -
This was, at the very least, true among British writers who had utilized these complex systems "from the time of Roman Britain to the Norman Conquest and beyond" (Howlett 1).
Academic text (2005) -
The Norman Conquest in 1066 drastically changed the course of English history.
Synonyms
The 1066 attack by the Normans after the Battle of Hastings that led to their rule of England
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase literally combines 'Norman' (a person from Normandy) and 'conquest' (seizing territory), so its core meaning — a conquest carried out by the Normans, i.e. their invasion and takeover of England — is directly inferable. As a named historical event it may carry specific details (e.g. 1066, Battle of Hastings) that learners might not know, but the basic sense is transparently deducible from the constituents.
Etymology
Norman Conquest names the invasion of England in 1066 by the Normans from Normandy, France. The word Norman shows who came and Conquest means 'taking control', so the phrase describes how these newcomers won, settled, and changed English law, language, and daily life.