Designed to Deceive

1077, Dover Castle.

More than a decade has passed since William, Duke of Normandy, defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings and was crowned King of England on Christmas Day 1066. Still faced with insurrection, both here in England and in his native Normandy, a perpetual threat to William's authority was his half brother, Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent and serial plotter against his King.

Odo is about to commission a work of art depicting the events leading up to the Conquest and th...