Patrick Wormald: The Normans, 3 June 2004
Show More The Battle of Hastings, 1066 by M.K. Lawson.
Tempus, 288 pp., £16.99, October 2003, 0 7524 1998 6Show More
The Normans: The History of a Dynasty by David Crouch.
Hambledon, 345 pp., £25, July 2002, 1 85285 387 5Show More
Domesday Book: A Complete Translation edited by Ann Williams and G.H. Martin.
Penguin, 1436 pp., £18.99, October 2003, 0 14 143994 7Show More
“... 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 ...”