Dictionary definition: ‘Norman Yoke’

Article: After 350 years, we should sort out the Lords - again
The Independent - London;  January 29, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Revolution was the removal of the "Norman yoke", based upon the notion that ... aristocracy, ranting against the "Norman Yoke" had contemporary resonance ... the accusation that they were dangerous innovators and insist that they merely ...

Article: Historiography and Tory restoration in Disraeli's ...
Nineteenth-Century Prose;  September 22, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... political/ideological constructs, the "Norman Yoke," and the emergent movement of English ... century. In Newman's redaction, the "Norman Yoke" becomes more than a "political philosophy ... analysis of the mythopoetic status of the "Norman Yoke" is crucial for understanding Disraeli ...

Article: HISTORY, ROMANCE, AND THE SUBLIME SOUND OF TRUTH IN IVANHOE (2).
Studies in the Novel;  September 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... a tale of horror about the decline of the Saxons under the Norman yoke. Her tale's connection to history as the mode closer to ... Athelstane. The noble hope for Saxon purity and delivery from the Norman yoke, the Athelstane Cedric would like to see before him, stands ...

Article: BRITAIN 1100.
History Today;  April 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...BRIAN GOLDING LOOKS AT LIFE UNDER THE NORMAN YOKE DURING THE CONSOLIDATING REIGN OF HENRY I ON AUGUST 2ND ... alike as the most enduring symbol of alien domination, the `Norman Yoke'. Winchester had long been the ritual capital of the Wessex ...

Article: Kipling's Kim and the Norman Conquest.(Rudyard Kipling)(Critical ...
ARIEL;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... of the Norman Conquest was a key element of English national identity. The longstanding English fantasy of rejecting the "Norman Yoke" produces the image of plain-speaking, plain-dealing English pluck and courage that contests the effete tyranny of the ...

Imagining Robin Hood.(Book Review)
History Today;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... and the post-Reformation modifications that convert the heroic outlaw into an Anglo-Saxon nobleman suffering trader the Norman yoke during the reign of King John, are sidelined in A.J. Pollard's Imagining Robin Hood. Instead the author concentrates ...

Article: Victorian eco-warriors. (British environmentalists)
History Today;  February 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... These older radical associations were especially marked in the rhetoric of the Victorian public access protesters. The `Norman Yoke' imposed on the Anglo-Saxons after the Norman Conquest and references to Oliver Cromwell's opposition to enclosures in ...