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Andrew
Bridgeford.
1066:
The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry.
London:
Fourth
Estate, 2004.
ISBN
1841150401.
Hardback.
354pp.
Publisher's
recommended price £20.00
Every
schoolchild
is familiar with the Bayeux Tapestry. For nine hundred years it has
preserved
the glory of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. But is the
tapestry
a straightforward work of Norman propaganda? In a brilliant piece of
detective
interpretation, Andrew Bridgeford looks closely at the narrative
contained
within it and discovers a wealth of new information. He shows us how,
under
the Normans' noses, the viewpoint of the defeated Anglo-Saxons was
ingeniously
encoded into the threads. The tapestry contains an extraordinary secret
tale which has gone unnoticed for centuries, an account of the final
years
of Anglo-Saxon England quite different from the Norman version of
events.
In the midst of it all the central character is a mysterious French
count
whose own claim to the English throne rivalled Duke William's. A world
of ambitious warrior bishops, court dwarfs, ruthless knights and
powerful
women is conjured up as the book moves towards some astonishing
conclusions.
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