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

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The Tapestry, a Manuscript

i think the first important thing to say is that the tapestry seems to reflect a manuscript. So there's some manuscripts in particular of notes, including the old english hexatu a andd mave junior sileven as well. And so it's cut of following a tradition, so it seems to be borrowed from those. But also, you have the depictio of this character, odo, bishop of bayex, who's the half brother of william the conqueror. It does suggest, on the surface at least, that he has some sort of roll in the story. A of that, you know, kind of giving it a sort of canterbury and prov

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