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The unsentimental, decisive way with things was the Norman way, giving a hardnosed edge to the fuzzy tangles of contracts and customs that had been used by the AngloSaxons. And it was in this spirit that William, in 1085, held court in Gloucester and launched arguably the most extraordinary campaign of his entire reign, a campaign for information. We tend to think of William as more or less permanently in the saddle. He grew up in a world, after all, where authority was usually delivered on the blade of a sword. So it' s all the more impressive that he seems to have understood instinctively that information could also be power. William the Conqueror was the first database King. |
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zhè zhǒng lǐ xìng ér guǒ duàn de chǔ shì fāng shì, zhèng shì nuò màn rén de fēng gé. yǔ zhè zhǒng zhòng shì shí jì de fēng gé xíng chéng xiān míng duì bǐ de shì, àng gé lǔ sā kè xùn tuō ní dài shuǐ de fēng sú hé qì yuē, yě zhèng shì běn zhe zhè zhǒng jīng shén, 1085 nián, wēi lián zài gé luò sī tè jǔ xíng shòu jìn lǐ, bìng fā dòng le yī chǎng tā zài wèi qī jiān. bǎo shòu zhēng yì què yě zuì wéi fēi fán de yī chǎng yùn dòng xìn xī yùn dòng. wǒ men qīng xiàng yú rèn wéi wēi lián jī hū cóng wèi fàng xià guò shǒu zhōng de quán lì. bì jìng, tā zài yí gè yǐ wǔ lì zhēng duó quán lì de shì jiè lǐ cháng dà chéng rén. yīn ér gèng wéi rén suǒ qīn pèi de shì tā sì hū tiān shēng jiù zhī dào, xìn xī yě shì yī zhǒng lì liàng zhēng fú zhě wēi lián shì dì yī wèi zhǎng wò hǎi liàng xìn xī de guó wáng. |