MIXED BAG

 BY  PRAGYANSHARMA POLAVARAPU   (1)NORMAN CONQUEST OF ENGLAND In a long period of 500-600 years   after the historic Norman conquest, England   --living under   Anglo-Saxon kings    in a   rural oriented   old world rural atmosphere-- underwent a great   change . Though separated by the sea from the continent   it was now becoming fully a part of European cultural, religious and political changes . England   was linked to European royal families by marriage alliances. England was growing agriculturally prosperous and was becoming one of the central players in   west European politics   .   England right from Anglo-Saxon times was an active seafaring nation with its ships protecting the coasts from Viking and Norwegian pirates. The Celtic people dominated areas of Ireland   Scotland and Wales and were somewhat aloof and backward. The Norman Conquest of England in 1066 was a great ...

  BY PRAGYAN SHARMA POLAVARAPU (A) INTRODUCTION In some  old classical English books we  see  a strict serious  style (Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden  etc ) and in some an entirely different  flowing simple styles  ( Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats,R.L.stevenson,Jane Austen etc) . There are surely  thousands of  outstanding writers during  last 300-400 years.  To understand the big transformations  that occurred perhaps  over a period of 1000 years to create modern English, we should take again a quick look at history. (a) From times of  Norman Conquest (1066) of England  large number of French words crept into  English language.  The political landscape of the British Isles transformed in a big way. William the Conqueror (1028-1087) replaced the Anglo-Saxon aristocracy with Norman-French aristocracy  and  redistributed  most land to the  Norman warlords .  A new French-Norman...

BY    PRAGYANSHARMA POLAVARAPU ·           EXT9-OLD ENCLAND-ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY-KING ALFRED THE GREAT January 04, 2026 BY    PRAGYANSHARMA POLAVARAPU  (1) The life  of people of British isles  since  ancient times  had always been  influenced  by  oceanic climate,  the land being at the eastern edge of the vast Atlantic ocean which spreads 3000 miles up to shores of USA.  The weather is influenced by the warm oceanic currents. The often rainy drizzling type weather and the greenery (forests and  low hills  in the south, forests and mountains and foggy weather in north) appear to make British Isles quite a picturesque place. A genuine love for nature—clearly visible in the descriptions of the greenery and forests, low hills  and valleys and the once quiet and once gusty  the seaside environment –pervade English literature from old to new times . “What is this...