THE BOOK OF THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY PRESENTING THE COMPLETE WORK IN A SERIES OF COLOUR FACSIMILES: THE INTRODUCTION & NARRATIVE BY HILAIRE BELLOC At Bayeux in Normandy, a little town as old perhaps as our race and older certainly than our records and our religion, there is to be seen in the main room of what was once the Bishop’s Palace a document unique in Europe. There is no other example, I think, of a record, contemporary or nearly contemporary, of an event so remote in the story of Christendom, detailed upon so considerable a scale and relating to a matter of such moment. It is these three characters combined which give to the Bayeux Tapestry its value. We have, indeed, pictorial represent…
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