The Bayeux Tapestry by Wolfgang Grape

The Bayeux Tapestry, the world-famous embroidered work over 73 meters long on display in the northern French town, depicts the Norman conquest of England in the year 1066. The dominant view up to now has been that the tapestry was produced in an Anglo-Saxon workshop in post-conquest England. Backed up by meticulous research on all aspects of the Bayeux Tapestry, the author has succeeded in revising this theory. With a vividness approaching that of a historical novel, he brilliantly argues the case that the tapestry originated in Bayeux itself. (93 color photos)

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