Unfortunately, the source material for reconstructing events is limited, and much of it is heavily tainted in fact, as far as we can tell, much of the Norman material is worse than useless, being outright fabrication to justify the unjustifiable. What happened in that year really mattered. There is good reason, then, for 1066 to be the best-known date in English history. Anglo-Saxon England was no paradise: but the level of civilisation was far higher than what was to follow under the rule of Norman lords. The Norman Conquest of England was a violent onslaught by barbaric feudal chivalry on what was, at the time, a sophisticated constitutional monarchy based on the rule of law, under whose authority the common people experienced a fair measure of peace, prosperity, and justice.
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