July
07
/ 2020
A team of researchers have established that Norman dietary influences in England after the Norman Conquest were less profound than previously imagined. This was a huge surprise given the perceived impact of Norman culture on Anglo-Saxon England. However, researchers did find some evidence that elite status Norman dietary influences on local English people resulted in changes in the kinds of meats they ate. A team of researchers from British universities decided to examine the archaeological evidence to determine Norman dietary influences on people in England after the 1066 Norman Conquest. They wrote in PLOS ONE that the Norman Conquest’s ‘effect on the everyday lives of the English population remains poorly understood’. By examining what English people ate, researchers believed they
