History B Schools History Project GCSE
Normanisation and cultural change
What Normanisation and cultural change means in History B Schools History Project GCSE, as defined for OCR.
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The Anglo-Saxon elite of earls and thegns were almost entirely replaced by a new Norman aristocracy, with tenants-in-chief receiving land.
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