The Bayeux Tapestry has long been appreciated as one of the most important historical documents relating the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. Renowned in its own day, viewers in the late twentieth-century are still awed by this dramatic and compelling account of events leading up to the Battle of[...]
The Bayeux Tapestry has long been recognized as one of the most problematical historical documents of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. More than a reinterpretation of the historical evidence, Suzanne Lewis's 1998 study explores the visual and textual strategies that have made the Bayeux Tapes[...]