Online Talk: The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry with Professor David Parsons
Discover the 'tale behind the tale' of the Bayeux Tapestry and specifically the remarkable history of its survival across five wars in France, religious upheaval and reform, revolution, and the not always sympathetic hands of those seeking to restore it. This is truly a nine lives story. It is a rather different and less well-known tale than its much written about depiction of the run up to and conduct of the Battle of Hastings itself.
About the speaker:
David Parsons is professor of applied economics (Leeds), author, government advisor, and a long standing enthusiast for the Bayeux Tapestry. A sometime resident in Normandy he has applied career-long documentary and other research skills to clarifying the often obscure chronology of the Tapestry. His investigations have critically reviewed evidence for the many candidates for its patron, its probable journey through the middle ages and arrival at Bayeux. This has revealed the key personalities behind its unlikely 'discovery' 300 years ago, how it then came to prominence and survived a series of unconnected but traumatic phases of its subsequent celebrity.
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Discover the 'tale behind the tale' of the Bayeux Tapestry and specifically the remarkable history of its survival across five wars in France, religious upheaval and reform, revolution, and the not always sympathetic hands of those seeking to restore it. This is truly a nine lives story. It is a rather different and less well-known tale than its much written about depiction of the run up to and conduct of the Battle of Hastings itself.
About the speaker:
David Parsons is professor of applied economics (Leeds), author, government advisor, and a long standing enthusiast for the Bayeux Tapestry. A sometime resident in Normandy he has applied career-long documentary and other research skills to clarifying the often obscure chronology of the Tapestry. His investigations have critically reviewed evidence for the many candidates for its patron, its probable journey through the middle ages and arrival at Bayeux. This has revealed the key personalities behind its unlikely 'discovery' 300 years ago, how it then came to prominence and survived a series of unconnected but traumatic phases of its subsequent celebrity.
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