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Hard on the heels of massacre and starvation came plague. And all across England, William built least 90 castles, dominating areas of potential revolt, engines of terror that helped William control over 2 million Saxons with just 25, 000 Normans. Most of the voices that have come down to us describing the events after 1066 are written from the victor' s perspective, unapologetic and crowing, sketching the starkest possible contrast between the Machiavellian perjurer Harold and the noble, betrayed William. But among this rather nauseating chorus of congratulation, there is at least one that dares break rank, that in fact sees the conquest as it surely was a brutal, ruthless and completely successful act of aggression and cruelty. The voice is all the more credible because it belongs to someone who by rights, should have found nothing to fault in the Norman Conquest the monk Orderic Vitalis, whose family came over with William and belonged, therefore, to the conquering class. |
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ér qiě jǐn gēn zhe dà tú shā hé jī huāng ér lái de jiù shì wēn yì, zài yīng gé lán quán jìng, wēi lián jiàn zào le zhì shǎo jiǔ shí zuò chéng bǎo, yòng lái zhèn yā zhèi xiē dì qū qián zài de fǎn kàng. kǒng bù zhèn yā shǐ de wēi lián jǐn yǐ liǎng wàn wǔ qiān míng nuò màn rén, tǒng zhì le liǎng bǎi duō wàn sā kè xùn rén, liú chuán dào wǒ men shǒu zhōng de nèi xiē jì zǎi zhe 1066 nián zhī hòu zhòng dà shì jiàn de shǐ liào, dōu shì shèng lì zhě shū xiě xià de, háo wú huǐ yì, yáng yáng zì dé, háo wú yǎn shì dì duì bǐ liǎo bù zé shǒu duàn, bèi xìn qì yì de hā luó dé yǔ gāo shàng què zāo bèi pàn de wēi lián. zài zhèi xiē duì shèng lì zhě ròu má de sòng gē zhōng, zhì shǎo hái yǒu nà me yí gè shēng yīn gǎn yú dǎ pò zhè hé xié. tā shí jì shang zhēn shí dì miáo shù le zhè cì zhēng fú, yī cì yě mán cán rěn, què wú bǐ chéng gōng de qīn lüè huó dòng. zhè zhǒng shuō fǎ gèng wéi kě xìn, yīn wèi àn lǐ shuō, xiě zhè jù huà de rén, duàn bú huì kè yì zé nàn nuò màn zhēng fú. tā jiù shì xiū dào shì ào ěr dé lǐ kè wéi tǎ lì sī, tā de jiā zú gēn zhe wēi lián lái dào zhè lǐ, yīn cǐ tā yīng shǔ zhēng fú zhě yī fāng. |