Michael Lawson

…So again, to quote Lawson, could it be despite the prominence given by the Bayeux Tapestry to the French cavalry that Hastings was so long and hard fought because much of the day was taken up by struggles between dense bodies of infantry on both sides of a type with which the Anglo-Saxons had long been familiar and because the Normans had retained their Scan…

…It's pretty much taken for granted that this is the rhythm of the day. But again, to quote Michael Lawson, who's being cheerily revisionist about this, he writes, "...as far as cavalry goes, one can acknowledge that possession of it gave William tactical options not available to Harold."…

…the consensus is shifting back to the idea that the English battle line wasn't just on the hill, but went right the way down to this kind of slightly boggy valley. And that is under the influence of Michael Lawson's definitive book on the battle, came out in 2002, mentioned it several times. And he points out that Carmen explicitly states that the English o…