
Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry Ep1: When, where and why was the Tapestry made?
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Elizabeth, I Think Michael Gets Into an Interesting Point
Mediaeval art generally doesn't temporalize excessively a in its context, that it's thinking about a larger am time frame than than any one series of events. Elizabeth: I think michael gets into a really interesting point. And as an example i'm going to talk about the scene of the oath, where the latin text says, essentially, i'm not quoting directly here, harold made an oath to william. But all the embroidery says is that he swore an oath. It doesn't even say he swore an Oath about the crown. So it, it leaves it open.
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