Did Harold really get it in the eye?
Patrick Wormald: The Normans, 3 June 2004
The Battle of Hastings, 1066
by M.K. Lawson.
Tempus, 288 pp., £16.99, October 2003,0 7524 1998 6 Show More
by M.K. Lawson.
Tempus, 288 pp., £16.99, October 2003,
The Normans: The History of a Dynasty
by David Crouch.
Hambledon, 345 pp., £25, July 2002,1 85285 387 5 Show More
by David Crouch.
Hambledon, 345 pp., £25, July 2002,
Domesday Book: A Complete Translation
edited by Ann Williams and G.H. Martin.
Penguin, 1436 pp., £18.99, October 2003,0 14 143994 7 Show More
edited by Ann Williams and G.H. Martin.
Penguin, 1436 pp., £18.99, October 2003,
“... a century earlier has a flightless missile extending well beyond the clutching hand. M.K. Lawson decides that the missile was in fact a spear, most of whose length has perished down the ages; that the central figure, not struck by but brandishing it, was merely one of the bodyguard defending the king and his standard; and that the inscription over the ... ”
