The Bayeux Tapestry: Woven by the Victors

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The Bayeux Tapestry may be back in England, but it is a Norman artwork. For Anglo-Saxon voices, we need to look elsewhere. If English hands made it, though, an English perspective is largely silent in the tapestry itself, that artful but deeply partisan tribute to the Norman victory.

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