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The Bayeux Tapestry

Carola Hicks’™ ‘œThe Bayeux Tapestry – The Life Story of a Masterpiece” opens up the intrigue, mystery and drama of the tapestry’™s history, in a fine piece of historical enquiry, and shows how – as with any piece of history – varied attitudes to the Tapestry through the years reveal a great deal about those times.The vivid scenes on the Bayeux Tapestry depict the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings in 1066. It is one of Europe’™s greatest treasures and its own story is full of drama and surprise.Who commissioned the tapestry? Was it Bishop Odo, William’™s ruthless half-brother? Or Harold’™s dynamic sister Edith, juggling for a place in the new court? Hicks shows us this world and the miracle of the tapestry’™s making: the stitches, dyes and strange details in the margins. For centuries it lay ignored in Bayeux cathedral until its ‘˜discovery’™ in the eighteenth century. It became a symbol of power as well as art: townsfolk saved it during the French Revolution; Napoleon displayed it to promote his own conquest; the Nazis strove to make it their own; and its influence endures today.This marvellous book, packed with thrilling stories, shows how we remake history in every age and how a great work of art has a life of its own.

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