1066: Sailing Into the Storm
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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History and the Eras
england becomes a major centre of high middle ages. New literature, the introduction of chivalric romances in the french style. And with this also comes a transformation of the language. The characters of entire ieties and entire eras can often depend on contingent events. Why did the winds shift on the english channel on that particular day? If we think back to the weather situation, what if the winds had been favorable when william wanted them to be,. Would he have invaded and run right into harold's enormous force assembled on the isle of wight?"
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