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Title: A short history of England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Cheyney, Edward Potts, 1861-1947
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ENGLAND UNDER THE NORMANS 143 118. Summary of the Norman Period.—The century that laybetween the battle of Hastings in 1066 and the accession ofHenry II in 1 154 was for England in a certain sense a periodof beginnings, or at least of such a transformation of old customsas to make them practically new. It was the beginning of a newline of kings and of a much more highly organized government.It was the beginning of a more universal and well-defined feudal-ism. It was the beginning of a much closer connection of theEnglish church with the center of the church at Rome. It wasthe beginning of better architecture, better writing, better trade.The old Anglo-Saxon race, which was somewhat sluggish in itsnature and backward in its civilization, was quickened and stirredand elevated by its conquerors. This was a partial compensationfor the loss of their national independence and for the oppressiverule of a powerful government and aristocracy, all the more hate-ful because it was even yet to

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