The story of the Norman Conquest is told in the Bayeux Tapestry, a 230-foot-long embroidered masterpiece containing 58 detailed panels. The fateful clash between William and Harry and the Normans ...

The crucial era is the three and a half centuries following the Norman Conquest: an initial phase, from 1066 to 1260, where French was the language of a colonising elite, followed by the period until ...

The Norman Conquest brought speakers of the Romance language Norman French to Britain. They had such an impact on the English language that it shifted to a new stage of development known as Middle ...

The Norman conquest The Francophone Normans conquered Wales by a process of raids and colonisation over two centuries. It was their English-speaking followers who brought their language to ...

Often referred to as the world’s most famous medieval artwork, the Bayeux Tapestry is both an intricate illustration of the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England in 1066 and a ...

The Anglo-Norman conquerors brought with them continental influences. Under the patronage of Anglo-Norman nobles and Welsh landed officials, the Poets of the Aristocracy thrived. The Conquest of ...