THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY AND ITS CONTEXTS

Aspects of the Bayeux Tapestry (in fact an embroidered hanging) have always remained mysterious, despite much scholarly investigatio n, not least its design and patron. Here, in the first full-length interdisciplinary approach to the subject, the authors (an art hi storian and a historian) consider these and other issues. Rejecting the prevalent view that it was commissioned by Odo, the bishop o f Bayeux and half-brother of William the Conqueror, or by some other comparable patron, they bring new evidence to bear on the quest ion of i...[Read more]