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The Rest Is History · 2025-03-17 · 58 min · 10,144 words

548. The Road to 1066: Anglo-Saxon Apocalypse (Part 1)

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The Norman Conquest. is the great turning point in the history of the English nation. Since the first settlement of the English in Britain, The introduction of Christianity is the only event which can compare with it in importance. And there is this wide difference between the two.

The introduction of Christianity was an event which could hardly fail to happen sooner or later. In accepting the gospel, the English only followed the same law which sooner or later affected all the Teutonic nations. But the Norman conquest is something which stands without a parallel in any other Teutonic land. If that conquest be only looked on in its true light,

It is impossible. to exaggerate its importance. And yet There is no event. Whose true nature

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