The Decentralized Church

william, who is now known, of course, as william the conqueror, this first norman king, he introduces the french language into england. He also carries out various administrative and centralizing reforms, a like onei would have seen at the same time in france or germany. And he actually carries out the first comprehensive census of england to catalogue the various resources,. human, animal, economic, and compiles them into what was called the doomsday book. It's really an emblem of this new style of a centralized tream lined a royal administration using highly trained a scholars scribes a to manage a kingdom.