Table of Contents

Part 1 Primary sources: William of Poitiers - "Gesta Willelmi"; William of Jumieges - "Gesta Normannorum Ducum"; "Anglo-Saxon Chronicles"; Florence of Worcester - "Chronicon ex Chronicis"; the Bayeux Tapestry; "Carmen de Hastingae Proelio". Part 2 Interpretations: bookland and fyrd service in late-Saxon England, Richard Abels; military service in Normandy before 1066, Marjorie Chibnall; William the Bastard at war, John Gillingham; naval logistics of the cross-Channel operation, 1066, Carol Gillmor; the Pevensey expedition - brilliantly executed plan or near disaster?, Christine and Gerald Grainge; the history of England, David Hume; the Norman Conquest, E.A. Freeman; the Battle of Hastings, 1066, J.F.C. Fuller; English warfare in 1066, Richard Glover; the feigned retreat at Hastings, Bernard Bachrach; the Battle of Hastings, R. Allen Brown; Hastings, an unusual battle, Stephen Morillo.