Is Britain’s delicate deal to borrow the Bayeux Tapestry from France a diplomatic coup or a cultural gamble?
When the Bayeux Tapestry goes on display at the British Museum later this year, It will be the culmination of one of the most influential cultural exchanges of this century. Nearly a thousand years old, the tapestry is one of Europe’s earliest visual stories. A mediaeval graphic novel, if you will, that has shaped how…