Практикум по английскому языку (по истории Англии Средних веков). Пилипенко В.А - 17 стр.

V. Work as translators:
     1. 1069 ãîä îçíàìåíîâàëñÿ (áûë îòìå÷åí) ïîëíûì óñòàíîâëå-
íèåì ôåîäàëèçìà â Àíãëèè.
     2. Çàâîåâàòåëè ñòàëè õîçÿåâàìè çåìëè.
     3. Âëàñòü áàçèðîâàëàñü íà âëàäåíèè çåìëåé.
     4. Êîðîëü ðàçäàâàë çåìëþ âàññàëàì.
     5. Ñ ñàìîãî íà÷àëà âëàñòü ãîñóäàðñòâà áûëà áîëüøå, à ôåî-
äàëüíîé çíàòè — ìåíüøå.

VI. Reading.

1. Check the meaning of the words in your dictionary.
     ñastle, dominate, pliant, hold down, obstinate.

2. Are the sentences true or false? Correct the false sentences:
     a) The Britons were very obstinate and strong-minded.
     b) If the English had been a servile people, their culture would
have become urban.

3. Text for reading and translating.
      Perhaps the character of our culture is one of the results of the
Norman Conquest, of the Normans’ need to build castles all over
the land, and to live in those castles rather than in the cities in
order to hold down and dominate the strong-minded and obstinate
people whose land they had taken. Perhaps if the English, the Anglo-
Saxons, had been a servile and pliant people the Norman knights
would have congregated in the cities once the Conquest was over,
and the culture of the English countries would have become urban,
like that of Germany, and the Italian republics. Perhaps that is the
heart of the matter: that the English great house is the direct cultural
descendant of the Norman motte and bailey, and no further
explanation is needed. Yet it seems to me that there must be some
other case. I do not know.




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