The Battle of Hastings according to Gaimar, Wace and Benoit: rhetoric and politics

Courtesy of Medievalists.net: "Our aim here is ... to explore the literary approaches adopted by three vernacular writers working between the late 1130s and the 1180s, and in particular to consider how rhetorical resources are deployed to produce three very different visions of the same event, and how the choice of those resources may have been shaped by the political context within which each writer was working." The full PDF version of this essay may be viewed at Deremilitari.org.