This week we return to medieval England for part two of our two parter. We finally get to Hereward, but first let’s talk a little about William the Conqueror and the final years of Edward the Confessor’s reign.
Welcome to Hereward the Wake: Part Two - The Confessor.
Sources this week include:
I promise I’ll get this done in the coming days… A lot of info from these two episodes come from older blog posts I’ve taken down some time back, which I need to work back from… but the main newer sources were
The Norman Conquest by Marc Morris
Femina, A New History of the Middle Ages… by Janina Ramirez
The English and Their History by Robert Tombs
Cameos from English History from Rollo to Edward II by Charlotte M Yonge
And the following two are a bit odd…
A Book of Giants by Henry Lanier (mostly folk tales of mythical giants, but has a chapter on real world giants.)
And Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter Pyle (There are a lot of near giant or legit giant men in this tale, so I fact checked their sizes as best I could through these two dusty old books.)
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