The Battle of Hastings
Subtitle: sources and interpretations
By: edited and introduced by Stephen Morillo.
Contributors: Morillo, Stephen.
Series: Warfare in history,
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Harold, King of England, 1022?-1066 -- Death and burial.; Hastings, Battle of, England, 1066 -- Sources.; Great Britain -- History -- William I, 1066-1087 -- Sources.
Description: The Battle of Hastings is a unique collection of materials focused on one of the most significant battles in European history. It includes all the primary sources for the battle, including pictorial, and seminal accounts of the battle by the major historians of the last two centuries. Stephen Morillo, in his own important piece, first sets the scene, describing the political situation in western Europe in the mid-eleventh century, and the events of 1066.

He then introduces the sources, reviewing the perspective of their medieval authors, and traces the history of writing about the battle. An important companion to the sources and interpretations is the set of original maps of the major stages of the battle, from first contact in the early morning of 14 October 1066 to final pursuit in the late evening darkness.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-230).