Mysteries of the Norman Conquest
Unravelling the Truth of the Battle of Hastings and the Events of 1066
- 248 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Mysteries of the Norman Conquest
Unravelling the Truth of the Battle of Hastings and the Events of 1066
About this book
Recent challenges to the traditional site of the Battle of Hastings have led to a surge of interest in the events surrounding England’s most famous battle. This, in turn, has increased speculation that the titanic struggle for the English crown in 1066 did not take place on the slopes of what is today Battle Abbey, with a number of highly plausible alternative locations being proposed. The time had clearly come to evaluate all these suggestions, and Robert Allred decided to take on that task. Taking nothing for granted, Robert hiked round the sites of the three battles of 1066 – Fulford, Stamford Bridge and Hastings. Armed with the medieval sources and much of the current literature, he set out to appraise the evidence and to draw his own unbiased conclusions. Following in the footsteps of the Viking warriors of Harald Hardrada, the knights of William of Normandy and the Anglo-Saxon soldiers of King Harold, the reader is taken on a journey from Yorkshire to the South Coast and down through the ages to re-examine what has been written about that momentous year – the intrigues, preparations and manoeuvres – which culminated on 14 October 1066, on a bloody hill somewhere in Sussex. Whether this will settle the debate over the site of the Battle of Hastings or prompt further investigations remains to be seen, but it will be a book which cannot be ignored and which the reader will be unable to put down!
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Book Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- List of Illustrations
- By Way of Introduction: Prelude and Preliminaries to Investigating the Battle of Hastings
- Chapter 1 Why The Norman Conquest Matters
- Chapter 2 Anglo-Saxon England – the Background
- Chapter 3 The First Trip to Battle
- Chapter 4 The First of the Three Battles of 1066 – Fulford
- Chapter 5 The Second of the Three Battles of 1066 – Stamford Bridge
- Chapter 6 The Battle of Hastings – What Others Have Had to Say About its Actual Location
- Chapter 7 The Composition of the Anglo-Saxon Army – Of Fyrdmen, Hidesmen, Huscarls and Thegns
- Chapter 8 Where the Forests End and Begin – Today and in 1066
- Chapter 9 Who Were the Men Who Fought in the Norman Army?
- Chapter 10 The Final Trips to Battle
- Chapter 11 The Bayeux Tapestry, and the End of the Battle of Hastings
- Chapter 12 Aftermath
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index