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much information and encouragement. My gratitude is also due to many other people who have volunteered information or helped in various ways, including Catherine Cooper, Nicholas Falla, Rod McLoughlin, Dr S. Pavan and Mark and Julie Temple. I am grateful to the Fellows of Churchill College, Cambridge, for affording me the facilities of the Senior Combination Room during 2000; to the partners of Crills for allowing me a six-month sabbatical in 1998; to them and latterly the partners of Carey Olsen for their continued interest and encouragement; to my agent A. M. Heath & Co. Limited; and to Fourth Estate for seeing this book through to publication. Finally I must thank my wife who, when she married me, little knew that she was marrying this book as well and has suffered many of its attendant tribulations. To her and our daughter this book is offered as an imperfect tribute.

For the paperback edition I have taken the opportunity to make some minor corrections and changes. I am also grateful for further information provided by Richard Knowles F.S.A. and Richard Michel.

Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Map of Northern France and England

1 In Search of the Bayeux Tapestry

2 A Tale of Consequence: The Impact of Conquest

3 Sources

4 Stitches in Time

5 The Strange Journey of Harold Godwinson

6 The Fox and the Crow

7 The English Decision

8 Invasion

9 The Battle of Hastings

10 English Art and Embroidery

11 A Connection with Bishop Odo of Bayeux

12 The Bayeux Tapestry and the Babylonian Conquest of the Jews

13 The Tanner's Grandsons

14 The Scion of Charlemagne

15 Count Eustace and the Death of King Harold

16 Eustace and the Attack on Dover

17 The Downfall of Bishop Odo

18 Turold the Dwarf

19 The Scandal of Ælfgyva

20 Wadard and Vital

21 Bayeux Cathedral and the Mystery of Survival

22 The Patronage of the Bayeux Tapestry

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgements