Collaboration - A Short Term Strategy

During this period of conquest and later occupation, faithlessness was becoming a business opportunity. Collaboration was officially alamode. Any land, treasure or titles that the noble and clergy were seeking in exchange for their collaboration was going to be taken from their fellow englishmen. And so rather than working together against the normans,. the englis elite were, in a very real sense, preying upon each other. It was a short term strategy that didn't even have short term benefits for the vast majority of the nobles who submitted to william. The way william viewed his position in england and his rel nship to the english was very different from canute. Canute had adopted