What might England look like hadn't it been for the Normans?

I'm sure you've heard this multiple times before, but the language would be more Germanic and less Latin. And they would be less involved in mainland politics.

I wonder if England would still have had important universities in the middle ages.

>>2682988
Wasn't the perception of Britain just "That one rainy island"?

>>2683056
Oxford produced some of the most important medieval thinkers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Franciscan_school
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Calculators

What a shit hut with that fucking pole holding the front up. I could build something nicer than that in a couple of weekends by myself.

>>2682953
New York would be on the Moon.

>>2682953
Probably much less relevant, Anglo-Saxon England was deeply insular and there was little to distinguish them from other German or Scandinavian societies bar their slightly more individualistic tendencies. So you would've had a more coherent people and culture but at the cost of world relevance. The Kingdom only became a major player in Europe at the behest of the Platagenets.

>>2682973
>And they would be less involved in mainland politics.

Maybe initially. But there's no way to tell how things would have evolved over the centuries.

For all we know, another French or maybe even Spanish conquest could have happened a few centuries latter.

>>2682953
England would have acted more like a Scandinavian country

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Probably would be more like a European Japan with their own weird culture and then forced to open to the European mainland by France or Spain.

>there is a timeline where Britain is the nation of anime