Unreliable Fidelities: Aristocracy and Vassalage in the Tapestry of Bayeux
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https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/484Keywords:
Bayeux Tapestry, Political Culture, Fidelity, MonasticismAbstract
The Tapestry of Bayeux (11th century), a well known medieval iconographic source, witnesses a specific political culture, expressed by its authors, the monks of St. Augustine in Canterbury. That culture is based first of all on the will to go beyond the conflict of 1066 between Norman and English people, to build therefore a kind of pacific social life in the new anglonorman kingdom. This kind of peace cannot however be based on the fidelity system internal to the military aristocracy, whose untrustworthiness had lead to the war and to a slaughter in the battle of Hastings.
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