Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Eleventh Century
- II.1 The Battle of Hastings and Its Aftermath
- II.2 Two Charters of William the Conqueror
- II.3 Goscelin of Canterbury, The Book of Consolation
- II.4 The Domesday Book of 1086
- II.5 The Life of St Swithun: the Miracle of the Broken Eggs
- II.6 The Life of St Birinus
- II.7 St Anselm of Canterbury
- Twelfth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- Fourteenth Century
- Fifteenth Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume II
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
II.1 - The Battle of Hastings and Its Aftermath
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2024
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Eleventh Century
- II.1 The Battle of Hastings and Its Aftermath
- II.2 Two Charters of William the Conqueror
- II.3 Goscelin of Canterbury, The Book of Consolation
- II.4 The Domesday Book of 1086
- II.5 The Life of St Swithun: the Miracle of the Broken Eggs
- II.6 The Life of St Birinus
- II.7 St Anselm of Canterbury
- Twelfth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- Fourteenth Century
- Fifteenth Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume II
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
Summary
In the section on the Battle of Hastings of 1066, the first event in the Norman Conquest of Britain, an excerpt is given of the Latin text accompanying the embroidered pictures on the Bayeux tapestry. Then excerpts are given from the early twelfth-century accounts by William of Malmesbury of the Battle itself, and by Orderic Vitalis of the aftermath of the battle, in the following years of violence against the population in the rest of the country, including Northumbria and Cumbria.
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- The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin , pp. 33 - 43Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024