The Green Tree Anglo-Saxon Chronicle based book- Lifestyle Monday
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On Friday lunchtime, I went to the history club where we discuss different historical extracts. This one was about life post 1066, where the Normans at first were considered to be better than the English. However, both cultures soon got to live along side each other. The historian focuses on the metaphor of the Green Tree Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, to prove their point about how the two cultures learnt to live along side each other. The chronicle talks about a tree being cut down in the middle and without the hand of a human, just its own free will, it joins itself back to the trunk and begins to push leaves and bear fruit. In this case, the trunk and the felled part are France and Britain and when it says that it comes back together and begins to bear fruit and leaves suggests that after a while, you don't see the distinctions between the French and the British anymore. We discussed the chronicle being a potentially biased source of information, since it was written by a person paid by the king. However, it does help us to prove our arguments against it and it tells us how people at the time lived and felt about the kings of the time. The extract with all the different people in power can be a potentially complicated piece of writing, especially with tiny writing and the fact that we literally studied the Battle of Hastings in year 7. However, when you look beneath all that, the historians opinion is very simple. Despite differences, contrasting cultures can live along side each other.
This is a question that was posed on the group. What makes a person British? My answer to that question is, if a person has been living in Britain for a long time and wants to consider themselves as British, they are British. What is your answer to this question? Let me know in the comments below and I'll be sure to reply to them. I ♡ hearing from you!
See you next time,
Bye,
XOX,Juliette
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On Friday lunchtime, I went to the history club where we discuss different historical extracts. This one was about life post 1066, where the Normans at first were considered to be better than the English. However, both cultures soon got to live along side each other. The historian focuses on the metaphor of the Green Tree Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, to prove their point about how the two cultures learnt to live along side each other. The chronicle talks about a tree being cut down in the middle and without the hand of a human, just its own free will, it joins itself back to the trunk and begins to push leaves and bear fruit. In this case, the trunk and the felled part are France and Britain and when it says that it comes back together and begins to bear fruit and leaves suggests that after a while, you don't see the distinctions between the French and the British anymore. We discussed the chronicle being a potentially biased source of information, since it was written by a person paid by the king. However, it does help us to prove our arguments against it and it tells us how people at the time lived and felt about the kings of the time. The extract with all the different people in power can be a potentially complicated piece of writing, especially with tiny writing and the fact that we literally studied the Battle of Hastings in year 7. However, when you look beneath all that, the historians opinion is very simple. Despite differences, contrasting cultures can live along side each other.
This is a question that was posed on the group. What makes a person British? My answer to that question is, if a person has been living in Britain for a long time and wants to consider themselves as British, they are British. What is your answer to this question? Let me know in the comments below and I'll be sure to reply to them. I ♡ hearing from you!
See you next time,
Bye,
XOX,Juliette
My social media handles:
My Instagram
My YouTube channel
My second blog:
The Book Hub
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