To influence Culture and learning

• When the Normans arrived in England they brought with them many new cultural developments from Europe. They also brought with them a love of learning and changes to education.
• Benedictine monks improved levels of literacy and learning. William of St Calais donated a vast amount of library books to the monks at Durham.
• There was a greater use of Latin as the language of religious life.
• There was also a change in the manuscripts produced by monks. There was more use of illustrations which became important in the new regime and impressing the Anglo-Saxons.
• These changes to culture not only affected sculptors and illustrators but embroiderers, metalworkers and ivory carvers.