A comprehensive illustrated survey on the famous Bayeux Tapestry. This beautiful book unfolds the whole work with accompanying detailed commentaries.

Xavier Barral i Altet is a French art historian specializing in Late Antiquity and the Medieval, Romanesque and Gothic worlds, subjects he teaches at the University of Rennes and guest professor at the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris.

David Bates, a British historian specializing in the Anglo-Norman world (10th-13th centuries), is the former Director of the Institute of Historical Research in London (2003-2008), emeritus professor at the University of East Anglia and doctor honoris causa of the University of Caen-Normandie.,
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