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

       History

       The Book of the Bayeux Tapestry

       The Path to Rome

       The Old Road

       The French Revolution

       Blenheim

       Tourcoing

       Crécy

       Waterloo

       Malplaquet

       Poitiers

       First and Last

       Europe and the Faith

       Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church

       The Jews

       The Historic Thames

       A Change in the Cabinet

       A General Sketch of the European War: The First Phase

       The Two Maps of Europe

       Economics

       Servile State

       Essays

       Avril: Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance

       Hills and the Sea

       On Nothing and Kindred Subjects

       On Everything

       On Anything

       On Something

       This and That

       On

       The Free Press

       Novels & Short Stories

       The Mercy of Allah

       The Green Overcoat

       Poetry

       A Moral Alphabet

       Bad Child's Book of Beasts

       More Beasts For Worse Children

       The Modern Traveller

       Cautionary Tales for Children

       More Peers

       Verses and Sonnets

       Verses

       Sonnets and Verse

      HISTORY

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      THE BOOK OF THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY

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      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