The Bayeux Tapestry depicts the Battle of Hastings and the events leading to it. How can it be used as a historical source for these events? In what ways might it be considered unreliable? or...
The subject of the tapestry is the Battle of Hastings, but since it was designed and constructed in the eleventh century, it also provides the historian with other information about that era. Based on your study of the images in the tapestry and what you have already learned about medieval society, describe three or four other aspects (besides the events depicted or the military aspects) of the medieval world that are illustrated in the tapestry.