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Article: The Bayeux Tapestry: The Life Story of a Masterpiece.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 2006
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The Bayeux Tapestry: The Life Story of a Masterpiece. Carola Hicks. Chatto & Windus. [pounds sterling]25.00. x + 358 pages. ISBN 0-701-17463-3. This is not just a history of the creation of the Bayeux Tapestry but of 'the effect is has had on people and the many different ways in which they have used or understood it over the centuries' from Bonaparte to Himmler. The tapestry, actually an embroidery, is 'history's first cartoon strip', and a wonderful work of Norman propaganda to describe and justify William the Conqueror's seizure of the English Throne beginning in 1064 and ending in 1066. It was produced when the Norman control of England was still weak. After ...