Category: History - Medieval/Middle Ages

The Book of the Bayeux Tapestry Presenting the Complete Work in a Series of Colour Facsimiles

Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953· 3 chapters· 11,182 words

At Bayeux in Normandy, a little town as old perhaps as our race and older certainly than our records and our religion, there is to be seen in the main room of what was once the Bishop’s Palace a document unique in Europe. There is no other example, I think, of a record, contem...

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2. Part 2

Mr. Oman in his version of the affair makes Bonneville the scene of the oath. I have not seen the proof of this. The two fundamental pieces of evidence—Wace and the Tapestry—bot...

1. Part 1

At Bayeux in Normandy, a little town as old perhaps as our race and older certainly than our records and our religion, there is to be seen in the main room of what was once the...

3. Part 3

Of this latter part the first three panels (38, 39, 40) are concerned with the building and launching of the ships. In the first William orders the fleet to be built. He is seat...