The many mysteries and lessons of the Bayeux tapestry

layer8

https://archive.ph/rzY2Q

jimnotgym

A lot of articles in the British press about this at the moment, due to it having travelled to London.

ButlerianJihad

If you desire accompaniment whilst you study the Tapestry, and/or a bullet list of early modern and medieval history, may I recommend the bardcore stylings of Friar Funk and Hildegard von Blingin: https://youtu.be/drDs-Y5DNH8?is=mVqtUdKX9GwNWCqY

jtrn

For anybody wondering what this is about... It’s a newspaper article about a famous old artwork coming back to London from France for the first time in 950 years, with some musing about how history gets distorted over time (history is written by the winners and all that).

ranger207

The tapestry is really neat as a piece of... propaganda, for lack of a better term. I don't mean that negatively, but just that that's the closest term that I can think of for it. I saw it in Bayeux a couple years ago and was struck by how it's written almost like a comic book so that the general public (illiterate at the time) would be able to learn this history. Like, of course, history written by the victors, the tapestry's not necessarily the truth, but just the techniques used to convey its message almost a thousand years ago were surprisingly similar

Fomite

Honoring a beloved medieval art historian professor of mine: "It's more properly the Bayeux Embroidery"

jl6

Low stakes conspiracy: the high-security operation to move the tapestry to London was actually cover for the simultaneous movement of gold from European nations as part of their recent hedge against US counterparty risk.