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See also:BAYEUX See also:TAPESTRY, THE . This See also:- VENERABLE (Lat. venerabilis, worthy of reverence, venerari, to reverence, to worship, allied to Venus, love; the Indo-Germ. root is wen-, to desire, whence Eng. " win, properly to struggle for, hence to gain)
venerable relic consists of a See also:band of See also:linen, 231 ft. See also:long and 20 in. wide, now See also:light See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown with See also:age, on which have been worked with a See also:needle, in worsteds of eight See also:colours, scenes representing the See also:conquest of See also:England by the See also:Normans. Of these scenes there are seventy-two, beginning with Harold's visit to Bosham on his way to See also:Normandy, and ending with the See also:flight of the See also:English from the See also:battle of See also:Hastings, though the actual end of the See also:strip has perished. Along the See also:top and the bottom run decorative See also:borders with figures of animals, scenes from fables of See also:Aesop and of See also:Phaedrus, from husbandry and the See also:chase, and occasionally from the See also:story of the Conquest itself (see See also:EMBROIDERY; See also:Plate I. fig. 7). Formerly known as the Toile de St See also:Jean, it was used on certain feast days to decorate the See also:nave of Bayeux See also:cathedral. Narrowly escaping the perils of the Revolution, it was exhibited in See also:Paris, by See also:Napoleon's See also:desire, in 1803-1804, and has since been in See also:civil custody at Bayeux, where it is now exhibited under See also:glass. In the Franco-See also:German See also:War {1871) it was hastily taken down and concealed.
" The noblest See also:monument in the See also:world See also:relating to our old English See also:history," as See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Stukeley described it in 1746, it has been repeatedly described, discussed and reproduced, both in See also:France and in England since 1730. The best coloured re-See also:production is that by C. A. See also:Stothard in 1818, published in the See also:sixth See also:volume of Vetusta Monumenta; but in 1871–1872 the " tapestry " was photographed for the English See also:education authorities by E.
Dossetter.
See also:Local tradition assigned the See also:work to the Conqueror's wife. F. Pluquet, in his Essai kistorique sur la ville de Bayeux (See also:Caen, 1829), was the first to reject this belief, and to connect it with the Conqueror's See also:half-See also:brother See also:Odo, See also:bishop of Bayeux, and this view, which is now accepted, is confirmed by the fact that three of the bishop's followers mentioned in Domesday See also:Book are among the very few named figures on the tapestry. That Odo had it executed for his cathedral seems tolerably certain, but whether it was worked by English fingers or not has been disputed, though some of the words upon it have been held to favour that view. See also:Freeman emphatically pronounced it to be " a See also:con-temporary work," and historically " a See also:primary authority . . in fact the highest authority on the See also:Norman See also:side." As some of its See also:evidence is unique, the question of its authority is important, and Freeman's conclusions have been practically
confirmed by See also:recent discussion. In 1902 M. See also:Marignan questioned, on archaeological grounds, the date assigned to the tapestry, as the See also:Abbe de la See also:Rue had questioned it ninety years before; but his arguments were refuted by Gaston Paris and M. Lanore, and the authority of the tapestry was vindicated. The famous relic appears to be the solitary survivor of a class, for See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
Abbot Baudri described in Latin See also:verse a similar work executed for Adela, daughter of the Conqueror, and in earlier days the widow of Brihtnoth had wrought a similar See also:record of her See also:husband's exploits and See also:death at the hard-fought battle of See also:Maldon (991).
See E.
A. Freeman, Norman Conquest, vol. iii. (ed. 1875), with See also:summary of the discussion to date; Archaeologia, vols. xvii.-xix.; See also:Dawson See also:Turner, Tour in Normandy (182o); C. A. Stothard's illustrations in Vetusta Monumenta, vol. vi.; See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine, 1837; See also:Bolton Corney, Researches and Conjectures on the Bayeux Tapestry (1836–1838); A. de Caumont, " Un mot sur . . . la tapisserie de Bayeux," in Bulletin monumental de l'institut See also:des provinces, vol. viii. (1841); J. Laffetay, See also:Notice historique et descriptive sur la tapisserie . (1874); J. See also:Comte, Tapisserie de Bayeux; F. R.
Fowke, The Bayeux Tapestry (ed. 1898) ; Marignan, Tapisserie de Bayeux (1902); G. Paris, ' Tapisserie de Bayeux," in Romania, vol. xxxi. ; Lanore, " La Tapisserie de Bayeux," in Bibliotheque de l'icole des chartes, vol. lxiv. (1903) ; and J. H. See also:Round, " The Bayeux Tapestry," in Monthly See also:Review, xvii. (1904). (J. H.
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