Europe and the Year 1000.
Europe emerging from the Dark Ages.
The new European states.
1066 and the Norman Conquest.

 

SEE BELOW A LINK TO A PDF COPY OF LECTURE WEEK 6

6.1066.11.7.19

 

PART TWO: PICTURES:

The Bayeux Tapestry. The Bayeux Tapestry (French: Tapisserie de Bayeux) is a 50 cm by 70 meters (20 in by 230 ft) long embroidered cloth. It depicts scenes before and during the Battle of Hastings in 1066, with annotations in Latin. It is presently exhibited in a special museum in Bayeux, Normandy, France.

RECOMMENDED READING:

George Macauley Trevelyan,

A Shortened History of England,

Penguin Books (April 1, 1988),

ISBN 0140233237