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Great Commanders
07-07-2008, 07:18 AM,
#39
RE: Great Commanders
HiHi

Am I being really mean & horrible by pointing out that Will the Conk was Norse (the Normans were Viking, Rollo I think it was claimed Normandy for them), so really nothing changed :P

William was great for no other reason than he put a little continental civilization into that daub and waddle mud hole of an island Err? Cultural attaché for all things French eh, apart from slumming it, it's something of a demotion from one of the worlds 'Great commanders' ain't it :whis:

Actually Paul we did have a few centuries of Culture behind us before William turned up; folk like The Venerable Bede (673–735), some of his scientific theories and studies (tides & phases of the Moon) stood for 1,000 years and laid the basis for Isaac Newtons work, Alcuin of York (c.735 - 804) adviser to Charlemagne, the illustrated Lindisfarne Gospels, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Beowulf an Old English heroic poem plus some other bits & bobs.

Oddly enough nothing really springs to mind for the Norman/Plantagenet period till Geoffrey Chaucer, ... but maybe we as a people should be glad of that else we would be eating snails and stuff now Eek

All the Best
Peter
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Great Commanders - by Kingmaker - 06-13-2008, 07:37 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by RedDevil - 06-13-2008, 10:49 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Kingmaker - 06-13-2008, 07:08 PM
RE: Great Commanders - by Copper - 06-13-2008, 08:01 PM
RE: Great Commanders - by Steel God - 06-13-2008, 09:14 PM
RE: Great Commanders - by FM WarB - 06-13-2008, 09:50 PM
RE: Great Commanders - by RedDevil - 06-13-2008, 10:05 PM
RE: Great Commanders - by Kingmaker - 06-14-2008, 12:54 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Kingmaker - 06-14-2008, 04:16 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Ivan - 06-16-2008, 06:59 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Kingmaker - 06-16-2008, 08:04 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Glyn - 06-16-2008, 05:31 PM
RE: Great Commanders - by Glyn - 06-16-2008, 05:26 PM
RE: Great Commanders - by Kingmaker - 06-17-2008, 05:59 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Ivan - 06-17-2008, 06:57 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Kingmaker - 06-17-2008, 09:03 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Glyn - 06-17-2008, 09:39 PM
RE: Great Commanders - by Ivan - 06-18-2008, 02:28 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Metnegomilj - 06-18-2008, 07:51 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Kingmaker - 06-20-2008, 03:38 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Stryker - 06-21-2008, 12:37 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Ivan - 06-21-2008, 01:08 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Kingmaker - 06-21-2008, 03:11 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Stryker - 06-23-2008, 04:36 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Kingmaker - 06-23-2008, 04:56 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Steel God - 06-25-2008, 05:02 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Kingmaker - 06-25-2008, 06:50 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Outlaw Josey Wales - 06-25-2008, 07:42 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Steel God - 06-25-2008, 08:55 PM
RE: Great Commanders - by Kingmaker - 06-27-2008, 12:25 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Steel God - 06-29-2008, 01:17 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Kingmaker - 07-03-2008, 11:04 PM
RE: Great Commanders - by Steel God - 07-04-2008, 12:24 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Stryker - 07-04-2008, 07:37 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Steel God - 07-06-2008, 12:36 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Kingmaker - 07-04-2008, 01:30 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Kingmaker - 07-06-2008, 04:41 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Steel God - 07-06-2008, 07:13 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Kingmaker - 07-07-2008, 07:18 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Steel God - 07-07-2008, 10:12 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Kingmaker - 07-08-2008, 08:58 PM
RE: Great Commanders - by Steel God - 07-08-2008, 10:39 PM
RE: Great Commanders - by Kingmaker - 07-09-2008, 04:00 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Kingmaker - 08-06-2008, 05:59 AM
RE: Great Commanders - by Steel God - 08-06-2008, 08:40 PM
RE: Great Commanders - by Kingmaker - 08-06-2008, 10:20 PM

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