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Athelstan:

"Harrowing" and "harrying" probably stem from the same root. I just wanted to point out that the event you refer to is usually referred to as the Harrying of the North. And although there are some people who argue that the Harrying of the North wasn't quite the "big deal" some historians make it out to be, the results were, unfortunately, all too real.
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Anne, I agree .The effect of the genocide indelibly left its mark on the English psyche for centuries.
A dislike for autocratic government.
This reinforced by episodes through the centuries-The Peasants revolt ,The Peterloo Massacre and many more.
The concentration of power in the hands of a few.
The attitude of them and us.Such as in London and the 'Provinces'.The attitude that they know what is best for us.
I could go on forever I suppose.
William has been lauded by some commentators and Harold denigrated by others but at the end of the day his usurping of the crown was an act of self centered piracy on his part and that of his cronies.Unfortunately the descendents of these people still control many of the institutions of this country.
What is also hard to swallow is the superior attitudes of those apologists for William and the fact that any critique of their views is deemed 'abuse'
Abuse is what the invasion of 1066 and its consequences stood for.Abuse is also the denial of opportunities to express those views.
Disgutedly ,Athelstan.( I' off to the Fens now!!!!)
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HEAR HEAR


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William has been lauded by some commentators and Harold denigrated by others but at the end of the day his usurping of the crown was an act of self centered piracy on his part and that of his cronies.Unfortunately the descendents of these people still control many of the institutions of this country.
What is also hard to swallow is the superior attitudes of those apologists for William and the fact that any critique of their views is deemed 'abuse'
Abuse is what the invasion of 1066 and its consequences stood for.Abuse is also the denial of opportunities to express those views.

*wild applause*
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This thread seems to have gone on a diversion
 emoticon Martin,
That is certainly a perceptive view of the Chronicon Cluniacense as I have now had a chance to scrutinise that element of it.Looking at the centre of it is paramount because it illustrates literally and metaphorically the division of policy you indicate the consecration object (the abbey) separates the opposing parties and it could not be more blatant.It's that subtext in a lot of medieval art that was very much standard and can be seen to some extent in The Bayeux Tapestry.A comment to the pro-Usurper opinion: you seem to be implying that all was 'sweetness and light' before 1066 and that all kinds of horrors were unleashed after that date including that well-worn concept 'the-rich-man-in-his-castle-and-poor man-at-his-gate'.That's Hobbitt not History.But is that not one of Tolkien's motivations in writing his 'trilogies' mourning the loss of some kind of Anglo-Saxon (Dane also in this instance?) mythology which he saw his work attempting to 'restore'? Yes it was all very bucolic in his 'Shires' none of the 200-300,000 slaves in sight or even a whiff of the slave trade.Or none of the civilised methods the slave owners used for controlling the numbers either,like leaving 'excessive' babies in the open to die of exposure.No wonder Thomas Carlyle was moved to remark, when asked whether the Conqueror had changed Angleland for the better:"What was it before?"

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The Runt Forum, here you go again meandering down the paths of historical fantasy.It is you me thinks who are engaging in fantasy.
The basis of my stand against the Norman usurper and his apologists is the lack of any decent evidence that he had a genuine claim, that he had a right to intervene in a country where he had no support.
He did not even have the claim that he was defending Normans in England against any kind of discrimination.
There is no truth in your claim that we claim all was sweetness and light in England before 1066.But it was/is our land and not for a greedy,meglomaniac,egotistical self appointed agrandising thug to interfere in without any just claim.
What makes your case so idiotic is the claims for some kind of revolution.
Re Thomas Carlyle and the quote you use.Please in the interests of genuine debate quote your source and then we can all see the context otherwise stop your stupid pick and mix history.
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Athelstan:

FWIW, Thomas Carlyle was one of those Victorian gentleman scholars who thought British history began on October 14, 1066. He had a number of reasons for this, which don't matter much today, as more modern scholarship has dug a lot deeper into the causes and results of what this Forum pleases to call a "revolution". Still, it would be nice to see the context in which this quote was written.
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there you go again about slavery...


I'm simply not going to let you get away with spewing nonsense without knowing a thing about the subject.

The Normans did NOT ABOLISH SLAVERY. Period. NOT. DIDN'T HAPPEN! Here's the proof: the Domesday Book itself, and here's the post I made a few weeks ago with the evidence, which was conveniently ignore then just as I'm sure it will be now:

slavery in NORMAN England

Have no idea if that link goes right to that post or not, but it's on something like page 8 of the "William the Conqueror" thread.

Stop with the propaganda, for heaven's sake, it's childish, and INACCURATE.

Geez.
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Gyrth, Are you denying that slave-owners,slaves,the slave trade and the "peculiar institution" of slavery died out in Angleland by the mid 12th Century under the Norman Kings who ruled from 1066-1100 as Revolutionaries and who, despite the Counter-Revolution of 1100 failed to halt the decline of that barbaric, human condition only begun after Senlac? If you choose to ignore the barbarism inflicted under the Anglo-Saxon-Dane rulers who showed no sign whatsoever of eliminating the "peculiar institution", that just shows how incapable you are of absorbing facts that conflict with your erroneous opinion.Slavery was annihilated in Angleland under the rule of the Norman Kings.
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I really wish...


...that I had not allowed your total lack of common sense or respect for historical fact piss me off so much that I typed "Norman." Specifically, neither William nor your precious Rufus abolished slavery, so for pete's sake, STOP SAYING IT and stop implying it - it's not true! AGAIN, slavery was abolished in 1102 - not by William, not by Wiliam II, but by Henry - and calling Henry Norman is debatable since, as someone pointed out, he was born in England... uh, that's E-N-G-L-A-N-D, not "Angleland," which is idiotic.

But that's semantics. The fact - FACT - of the matter is, the abolition of slavery was promoted and preached for by WULFSTAN, the Anglo-Saxon spiritual advisor of King Harold, and it was only through his singular persistance did the slaves in Bristol get released. Is your brain able to wrap itself around that fact? Can you handle it? Can you handle the fact that slaves continued to be held on the very land controlled by William and his family as late as the Domesday Book?

Good grief.
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Gyrth and Hugo(and the rest of the WRTF):

Personally, I'm less interested in who "abolished slavery" in England, than in this silly contention that the events we are discussing were some kind of "revolution". This is a total misconstrual of such facts as exist. Also, like you, I don't much care for "Angleland". But then, these people have been using modern French forms of the Norman names, so I don't suppose they have any real idea of what the English at that time called themselves or the place they were living in. Everything seems to pretty much be filtered through one group's fantasies.
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