![]() All the major participants of the year’s events – from Harold to Viking invader Harald Hardrada (who struck the kingdom from the north virtually on the same day as William’s invasion), poor old dead King Edward the Confessor, and of course William himself – have all had full-length biographies. The Bayeux Tapestry (which our author nerdily points out is actually an embroidery) has been the subject of at least ten popular histories in the last ten years alone. ![]() And we don’t exactly lack for modern attempts. ![]() ![]() The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England By Marc MorrisPegasus Books, 2014 When it comes to the subject of the Norman Conquest, to the well-worn worn saga of William of Normandy leading his troops across the Channel to wrest control of England from the newly-crowned King Harold Godwinson and thereby earn the name Conqueror, a pitch-black smog of superfluity hangs over the whole historical landscape.As Marc Morris notes in his new book The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England, the story has been told and re-told many hundreds, if not thousands, of times over the centuries. ![]()
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