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Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry Ep1: When, where and why was the Tapestry made?

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The Hanging and the Pictorial Narrative of the Twelfth Century

Elizabeth whitwit, where do you stand on it? Is there any chance, for instance, that y te the 11 twenties of cherlian mentioned cabee, could be the date of the tapestry? So i am comfortable with that last quarter third of the eleventh century. In other words, in closer proximity to ten 66. I was struck by a similarity in tone between the kind of pictorial narrative on the hanging and later writers such as edmer william of mamsbury. And this tone that i would describe is a tone of there's enough blame to go around.

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