Episode 146 - 1066 and all that: What happened after the Battle of Hastings?
The English Heritage Podcast
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Is There a Change in the Elite?
There's been an estimate that around eight thousand norman landholders came over. You've certainly got a significant number of people coming in at the top levels of society. And they will be bringing some of their people with them. Yes, there's a change in the elite. For every great church in england, tfrom westminster abbey, is rebuilt, i think, in the 50 years following ten 66. Yet woneo one of the striking things about what happens after ten 66 is there that there's a building beam,. isn't there? Great churches? The building of massive stone cathedrals is a statement that the normans make in the same waththat they
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