The Bayeux Tapestry: A Reality Check | 6 Mar

What was it like to make the Bayeux Tapestry? Following her sell-out talk at Dovecot last May, Professor Jane Geddes returns to explore the great embroidery in the context of its return to the UK. Professor Geddes presents the embroidery not as an epic of Norman conquest, but as witness to the lived experience of stitching the details of everyday life. The Bayeux Tapestry is the earliest English battle epic in art, but in Scotland these heroic tales had been told in stone by the Picts in the ninth century, with comparable battle sagas shown on monuments at Aberlemno and Sueno’s Stone, Forres – And you don’t have to queue to see them!

Professor Jane Geddes is a British art historian and academic, specialising in Scottish architecture, British Medieval manuscripts, Pictish sculpture and Medieval decorative ironwork. She is Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Aberdeen.

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