Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

New approaches to what is arguably the most famous artefact from the Middle Ages.In the past two decades, scholarly assessment of the Bayeux Tapestry has moved beyond studies of its sources and analogues, dating, origin and purpose, and site of display. This volume demonstrates the value of more recent interpretive approaches to this famous and iconic artefact, by examining the textile's materiality, visuality, reception and historiography, and its constructions of gender, territory and cultural memory. The essays it contains frame discussions vital to the future of Tapestry scholarship and are complemented by a bibliography covering three centuries of critical writings.Contributors: Valerie Allen, Richard Brilliant, Shirley Ann Brown, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Madeline H. Cavines, Martin K. Foys, Michael John Lewis, Karen Eileen Overbey, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Dan Terkla, Stephen D. White.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-08-20
Mått:172 x 244 x 24 mm
Vikt:608 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN:9781843834700

Utforska kategorier

Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Textil konst inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita of the University of Manchester where she was previously Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies.

Recensioner i media

This volume admirably demonstrates a fresh range of expert thinking. [It]is uniformly of interest and good value.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Fifty Years of [Re]Producing the Bayeux TapestryProblematizing Patronage: Odo of Bayeux and the Bayeux Tapestry - Elizabeth Carson Pastan and Auctoritas, Consilium et Auxilium: Images of Authority in the Bayeux Tapestry - Shirley Ann BrownTaking Place: Reliquaries and Territorial Authority in the Bayeux Embroidery - Karen Eileen OverbeyOn the Nature of Things in the Bayeux Tapestry and its World - Valerie AllenMaking Sounds Visible in the Bayeux Tapestry - R. BrilliantAnglo-Saxon Women, Norman Knights and a 'Third Sex' in the Bayeux Embroidery - Madeline H. CavinessBehind the Bayeux Tapestry - Gale R. Owen-CrockerEmbroidery Errors in the Bayeux Tapestry and Their Relevance for Understanding Its Design and Production - Michael LewisFrom Hasting to Hastings and Beyond: Inexorable Inevitability on the Bayeux Tapestry - Daniel TerklaPulling the Arrow Out: The Legend of Harold's Death and the Bayeux Tapestry - Martin FoysThe Bayeux Tapestry: A Selective Bibliography - Daniel Terkla