The Collected Works of Hilaire Belloc. Hilaire Belloc
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Hilaire Belloc
The Collected Works of Hilaire Belloc
Historical Books, Economy Studies, Essays, Fiction & Poetry
Illustrator: Basil T. Blackwood, William Hyde, G. K. Chesterton
e-artnow, 2021
Contact: [email protected]
EAN: 4064066383459
Table of Contents
The Book of the Bayeux Tapestry
Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church
A General Sketch of the European War: The First Phase
Avril: Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance
On Nothing and Kindred Subjects
More Beasts For Worse Children
HISTORY
THE BOOK OF THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY
INTRODUCTION
At Bayeux in Normandy, a little town as old perhaps as our race and older certainly than our records and our religion, there is to be seen in the main room of what was once the Bishop’s Palace a document unique in Europe. There is no other example, I think, of a record, contemporary or nearly contemporary, of an event so remote in the story of Christendom, detailed upon so considerable a scale and relating to a matter of such moment. It is these three characters combined which give to the Bayeux Tapestry its value. We have, indeed, pictorial representation more accurate and more detailed in some few cases, but relating to the periods when material civilisation was high—before the Dark Ages. We have again an ample store of evidence pictorial and written, relating to the vivid life of the earlier Middle Ages, and of course, an overwhelming mass of matter dealing with everything that accompanied