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The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Guy, Bishop of Amiens (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Guy, Bishop of Amiens (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Oxford Medieval Texts
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The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio is one of the most discussed
sources for the Norman Conquest of England. Its authorship and date
cannot be established entirely beyond dispute, but the weight of
scholarly opinion supports a date of composition of 1068 or
earlier, by Guy, bishop of Amiens, thus making it the earliest
surviving account. Whatever its date, the Carmen remains a source
of intrinsic interest and importance, and one used by some of the
great chroniclers of the period, such as Orderic Vitalis. It is an
epic poem, concerned with some of the most momentous events of a
remarkable year, in which Halley's comet was a disturbing portent
of undisclosed disasters. For this second edition, Frank Barlow has
written an entirely new and substantial historical introduction,
incorporating the scholarly research of a generation. He has also
provided a fresh translation and notes, as well as revising the
Latin text of the 1972 edition by Catherine Morton and Hope Muntz.
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