1066 : THE HIDDEN HISTORY IN THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Andrew Bridgeford | 354 pages | 11 Apr 2006 | Walker & Company | 9780802777423 | English | New York, NY, United States 1066 : The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry PDF Book In the centuries that followed England was led by a French-speaking elite whose interests, or at least ambitions, lay on both sides of the Channel. A Concise History of Greece. NOOK Book. Maybe it's this unease with ambiguity that leads us to make histories, to get down on paper "what really happened". The monks who wrote the Chronicle attempted to distil the important events of each year, as they saw them, into single short paragraphs. This contrasts with the English who, like Harold, are in the habit of wearing their fair locks thick and long around the nape of the neck and a little stitch of a moustache underlining the nose. This is one of those books. No matter who commissioned it and the exact location where the embroiderers worked - one theory is a nunnery in Odo's territory - as well the exact year it was finished, the fact that something so delicate as foot piece of linen has survived over a thousand years when stone buildings have crumbled to dust. For more information on what data is contained in the cookies, please see our Cookie Policy. He stood by these stones; he saw them as we can see them; and his cheeks were touched by the same chill air. The Foucault sketch was reproduced in an article Lancelot wrote in the Academie's journal. Keep your mind sharp and improve your word power at the same time. As people began to appreciate just how narrowly it had escaped destruction, attention turned to the question of the tapestry's continued preservation. In the end the rout was so great that it took only twenty-four ships to carry home the survivors of an army that had arrived on Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. I enjoyed it another book borrowed and read electronically0 but I have a sneaking suspicion that "them as knows more about it" than me may feel the author's conclusions are a bit over the top. Showing Completed in , the facsimile was taken on a triumphant tour of England and thence on visits to the United States and Germany. In stead he proposes that it actually tells the story of bayeeux conquest from an English point of view. Or does it? Andrew Bridgeford brought history to life in a whole new way while simultaneously bringing century old secrets to light. Simeon of Durham recorded that corpses were left to rot in the streets and houses and that the surviving English citizens were reduced to eating horses, dogs and cats or else sold themselves into slavery. Did Countess Adela's tapestry - a sort of exquisite, miniature version of the real thing - really exist on the walls of her luxuriant bedchamber? He can be none other than William's half- brother Bishop Odo of Bayeux. Carefully curated from the surviving negatives of the Chatham Daily News Not for all, but a fascinating book. Written in a lively and engaging style, it starts by telling the story of the tapestry itself or what is known of it , from the first unequivocal reference to its existence in some four hundred years after its creation through the dangerous times of the religious wars in France, the Revolution, the 2nd World War and the Nazi occupation, until its present day location in a museum in Bayeux. Another two men, bent forward and visibly struggling, can be seen hauling a four-wheeled cart on which an enormous barrel of wine had been loaded, together with helmets and spears. Laid yarns are couched in place with yarn of the same or contrasting color. Now was the time for waiting, waiting nervously for the battle to begin. He asked for his artistic adviser to come into his office; the adviser duly confirmed that the tapestry remained at the Louvre. From Baudri onwards, no one seems to have guessed that there was an English viewpoint ingeniously stitched into this ostensibly Norman work. The UK's number one TV psychic is back with a fascinating and compelling guide to ghost hunting. But who is the woman and what is the artist alluding to? Apart from the changing fashions from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries, from flowing robes and pointed hats to tight breeches and coiffured wigs, the scene would have remained much the same - men and women, young and old, shuffling quietly along the smooth grey flagstones of their cathedral, peering intently at the work, some of their faces filled with pride at what seemed to be a simple chronicle of Norman achievement, others furrowing with perplexity at one of its more curious details. As the tapestry implies, it was the strong wind that landed him there. Through Stothard's heirs, the little fragment found its way to what is now known as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, where it was exhibited, quite openly, as 'A Piece of the Bayeux Tapestry'. The engine faltered on the very first incline, just outside the town. He would have calculated that reports of men, women and children suffering on Harold's own land, people whom Harold knew and was duty bound to protect, would incense his enemy and it was to William's advantage that Harold should be provoked into a decisive early encounter. Across the more even waters of the English Channel lay another potential claimant, Duke William of Normandy, a more unlikely one, perhaps, and something of an unknown quantity. As time went by England became more, not less, entangled in the regional and dynastic affairs of France. What mattered was his last wish before dying. Carpets of the Art Deco Era. The perspective of Boulogne, too long forgotten, ignored or misunderstood, holds some of the Bayeux Tapestry's most beguiling secrets. When this plan was canceled, the Tapestry was returned to Bayeux. Members save with free shipping everyday! It was written in another part of northern France. Shipbuilding begins in earnest [scene 33]. These are astonishing and very new conclusions. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. 1066 : The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry Writer Under a grey-linen sky the vast armada now arrives in sight of the Sussex coast. The chain of events that led to the 'discovery' of the Bayeux Tapestry is known in broad outline. Ghost Hunting with Derek Acorah. He appears on this occasion to be advising caution and William is evidently listening to him. Some of the more intriguing details: of the human figures depicted in the tapestry, only the key players are identified such as King Edward and the two men—William and Harold—vying for his throne with the exception of a few characters whose identities have been lost to history, including a dwarf named Turold. Edward's late sister Godgifu, exiled like him in France, had entered into a first marriage with Drogo, the count of the Vexin she later married Eustace of Boulogne. The Victorian copy took two years to complete; the result was in most respects a brilliant and accurate likeness. More filters. It is a compelling story, as is the tale of the extraordinary survival of the tapestry itself: history has rarely been writ so large, with such fine detail and yet been so veiled in mystery. It was a policy of deliberate terror: great swaths of land remained unproductive for at least a generation and there was widespread starvation - but of revolt we hear nothing more. Reinforcements were on the way and his ships were planning to move round the coast to cut off any Norman escape by sea. A quarter moon was then in the skies. Other editions. In stead he proposes that it actually tells the story of the conquest from an English point of view. The atmosphere of destructive paranoia soon reached Bayeux. Like all historical sources, it has its own perspective and the temptation must be resisted of assuming that the events were recorded as they happened, like a film on a camcorder. Incredibly readable for its academic subject matter and enjoyable and engaging the whole way through. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. He spent almost half his life in Normandy, becoming in the process as much Norman as English, before peace ably, and somewhat unexpectedly, being invited to return and ascend the English throne in on the death of Hartha-canute, Canute's last surviving son. At a time when it was not possible to record the English view in writing the artist did so pictorially. Spies may have informed the king that the Normans were busy assembling at Dives, for Dives lies directly opposite where he placed his own navy. At the time of the Norman conquest of England, modern heraldry had not yet been developed. Here, amid the clean-shaven Normans, we see the bearded Englishman, and Harold's oath. Cancel Delete comment. When some of his soldiers fell in the water and drowned during the journey from Dives to St-Valery, William, not wishing to cause alarm, ordered the mishap to be kept secret. He sent an embassy to Rome where his wily Norman ambassadors persuaded Pope Alexander II to give his blessing to the invasion. Bridgeford made an im The Bayeux Tapestry - a foot long piece of wool-embroidered linen - that depicts many of the events that lead to Duke William of Normandy's invasion and conquest of England at the battle of Hastings in He was entitled to revoke whatever promise he had made to William, or to anyone else.