• 24 December 2025

Medieval Lives 13: A Christmas Coronation

Human Circus: Journeys in the Medieval World

It's Christmas Day in 1066, and a new king is to be crowned. There will be all sorts of festive events: arrows in the eye, fires outside the church, and just a little holiday looting too.

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Sources:

  • Guy Bishop of Amiens. The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio. Edited and translated by Frank Barlow. Oxford University Press, 1999.

  • Lawson, M.K. The Battle of Hastings 1066. Tempus, 2002.

  • Orderic Vitalis. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, Volume 1. Translated by Thomas Forester. H.G. Bohn, 1853.

  • William of Poitiers. The Deeds of William. Oxford University Press, 1998.

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