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THE MAKING OF EUROPE: CONQUEST, COLONIZATION AND CULTURAL CHANGE 950 - 1350

and legal characteristics with which they were familiar.

The expansion of the High Middle Ages was a matter

not simply of Latin Christendom growing, but of the

territorial growth of a certain kind of society. It tended

to describe itself as Roman and Christian, but also

recognized the Celtic lands as alien to it. By the

eleventh century 'Latin Christendom' can be used to

designate not merely a rite or an obedience but a

society.

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2. The Aristocratic

Diaspora

A good knight by the fame of his valour and by his

effort has very often come to great riches and great

acquisitions. And many of them have become crowned

kings and others have had great riches and great

lordships.

One of the more striking aspects of the expansionary

activity of the tenth to thirteenth centuries was the

movement of western European aristocrats from their

homelands into new areas where they settled and, if

successful, augmented their fortunes. The original

homes of these immigrants lay mainly in the area of

the former Carolingian empire. Men of Norman

descent became lords in England, Wales, Scotland and

Ireland, in southern Italy and Sicily, in Spain and

Syria. Lotharingian knights came to Palestine,

Eliana

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