culture

• demonstrated wealth and power and superiority over the english
• primarily through buildings while anglo saxon aristocracy showed of with rich clothes ,jewels and lavish gifts on family memebers
• norman elites put their money into draw dropping churches cathedrals and castles
• within 50 years of 1066 every english cathederal church and most abbeys had been knocked down and built norman style
• by shaving the back of their heads because spending time on appearance wasnt a luxury that common people could afford. males
• hunting introduced complicated ceremonial way of butchering the animals they caught to distinguish what they were doing from cutting an animal to bits in order to eat it. mimicked that of war
• chivalry which was idolised by knights
• chivalry moral guidelines to accompany the actions in battle eg williams treatment of captures anglo saxons unlike the anglo saxons who would have killed them william put them in prison (he was mercifull)