We’re back from our hiatus to remember the Battle of Hastings on its 950th anniversary by looking at the account of the battle in the Historia Ecclesiastica of Orderic Vitalis.

This Episode’s Text:

  • Orderic Vitalis. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy. Vol. 1. Translator, Thomas Forester.  London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853. [Available via Google Books.]
  • Orderic Vitalis. The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis. Vol. 2. Editor and Translator, Marjorie Chibnall. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969.

Other References:

  • Chibnall, Marjorie. “General Introduction.” The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis. Vol. 1. Editor and Translator, Marjorie Chibnall. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. 1-125.
  • Gransden, Antonia. Historical Writing in England. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1974.

Image: Detail of the death of King Harold from the Bayeux Tapestry (via Wikimedia Commons).

Detail from the Bayeux Tapestry

Tapisserie de Bayeux – Scène 57 : La mort d’Harold