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Distressed woman and child - Bayeux Tapestry.
Interesting to compare with the figures from the Marcus Aurelius Column. Had the designer of the Tapestry been to Rome and seen it? (Hic domus incenditur: here a house is set on fire) - William devastated the area around Hastings in order (succesfully) to goad Harold into moving south from London too soon. Not something a conqueror would be inclined to boast about but something a subversive Anglo-Saxon monk might slip in. Bernstein argues that the tapestry contains several oblique allusions to the Babylonian captivity.
scanned from D. J. Bernstein_The Mystery of the Bayeux Tapestry,
London:1986.
Distressed woman and child - Bayeux Tapestry.
Interesting to compare with the figures from the Marcus Aurelius Column. Had the designer of the Tapestry been to Rome and seen it? (Hic domus incenditur: here a house is set on fire) - William devastated the area around Hastings in order (succesfully) to goad Harold into moving south from London too soon. Not something a conqueror would be inclined to boast about but something a subversive Anglo-Saxon monk might slip in. Bernstein argues that the tapestry contains several oblique allusions to the Babylonian captivity.
scanned from D. J. Bernstein_The Mystery of the Bayeux Tapestry,
London:1986.