... Norman Conquest; the invasion of England by William of Normandy in 1066. The army William used was hired on the promise of booty and fiefs following the war. The social structure that came about after the Norman Conquest placed the knight as a military figurehead, giving the knights a chance to move closer to the aristocracy that controlled them. Knight service was acquired ... and not to be accepted as the moral equivalent of courtly love. The most infamous example of the forbidden love is the story of Lancelot and Guenevere. This is a good parallel story to that of Tristan and Isolde ...

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