{"product_id":"the-bayeux-tapestry","title":"The Bayeux Tapestry","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Bayeux Tapestry is one of the most extraordinary artefacts to survive from the eleventh century. A fragile web of woollen thread on linen  its brilliant colours undimmed after nearly a thousand years  this masterpiece is unique as a complete example of an art form beloved of the aristocracy in the Romanesque era - the historiated or narrative embroidery. The momentous story it tells is that of one of the turning-points in English and European history  the struggle for the succession to the English throne which culminated in the Battle of Hastings in the fateful year of 1066. The version told is that of the Normans who commissioned it - of Harolds perjury and its dreadful price  death and defeat in battle. Yet the sympathies of the English hands that designed and created it are equally evident. And the Tapestry itself is so close to the events it describes  and portrays them in such vivid detail as to make it in its own right a historical source of the first order  not only for the political crisis of 1064-66 but also for the social history of eleventh-century life. This book presents a full-colour reproduction of the entire Tapestry  with a detailed commentary alongside each episode  equipping the reader to follow the story blow by blow and this marvellous work of art step by step. In addition  a preliminary study sets the Tapestry in its artistic  cultural and historical context. The late Lucien Musset  Emeritus Professor of the University of Caen  studied the Tapestry of nearby Bayeux for nearly fifty years. This erudite but highly readable survey distils a lifetimes scholarship into a wise and impeccably researched synthesis which enables the modern reader to appreciate what the Tapestry meant in the context of its time  at the start of the last millennium.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44959831392309,"sku":"ByrdShop_1843831635","price":96.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781843831631.jpg?v=1770375282","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-bayeux-tapestry","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}