Two Bayeux scholars at loggerheads over whether dangling shape depicts dagger or the embroidery’s 94th phallusIn a historical spat that could be subtitled “1066 with knobs on”, two medieval experts are engaged in a battle over how many male genitalia are embroidered into the Bayeux tapestry.The Oxford professor George Garnett drew worldwide interest six years ago when he announced he had totted up 93 penises stitched into the embroidered account of the Norman conquest of England. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/25/bayeux-tapestry-historian-genitalia-dispute
Author : Kim Willsher
Publish date : 2025-04-24 23:01:00
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