Strongbow landed on the Irish coast on August 23, 1170. Within weeks, he had taken Dublin, the most prosperous trading city in Ireland, a Viking foundation that served as the entrepôt for a…
Mark Morris — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Mark Morris has appeared on 3 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including Empire: World History. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Mark said
“The Norman line starts to collapse and the English, as they do every time it's a year that ends in 66, they think it's all over and they run onto the pitch.”
— Mark Morris, on the English breaking formation at Hastings
“The Bayeux Tapestry is hugely important, but only one source for this crucial period.”
— Mark Morris
“If you're going to say was it comparable to an alien invasion? No, clearly they're human beings, they're Christians, they have the same kinds of technology. But in lots of very crucial ways, they are quite different for societies that are so close together.”
— Mark Morris
“That to me is inherently suspicious and suggests that there were plenty of people saying, 'Well, what about the king's great nephew?' Harold's unseemly haste to grab the crown.”
— Mark Morris, on Harold's same-day coronation
Episode appearances
3 On a ridge in Sussex on October 14, 1066, two armies met in a battle that would determine the fate of the English crown. The Norman duke William had spent months waiting for a favorable wind to…
“The Bayeux Tapestry is one of dozens of sources for 1066, not the only one,” the historian Mark Morris reminds us early in this conversation. “Most people would realize they’re being told one…
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