
Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry Ep1: When, where and why was the Tapestry made?
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The History of the Tapestry
There's not a consensus that the tapestry was made in canter but there's, there's a lot of evidence for it. The discussions about where it was made have got what i would call a rather romantic history. It all started with bayeu and bernard de montfaucon and antoine lancelo both placed it in baye. And they linked it very romantically with matilda, or matilde, the conqueror's wife,. That stayed with the popular imagination for quite some time. In the early nineteenth century, the english came back saying that, no, no, it must have been made by English needlework women. Even though maybe mat
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