The Bayeux Tapestry

New Interpretations

Professor Martin Foys (Customer), Karen Karen Overbey (Customer), Dan Terkla , Daniel Terkla

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The Boydell Press
20 August 2009

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.

Contributions by: Daniel Terkla, Elizabeth Carson Pastan (Customer)
Edited by: Professor Martin Foys (Customer), Karen Karen Overbey (Customer), Dan Terkla
Imprint: The Boydell Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 172mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9781843834700
ISBN 10: 1843834707
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 20 August 2009
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Fifty Years of [Re]Producing the Bayeux Tapestry Problematizing 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 Brown Taking Place: Reliquaries and Territorial Authority in the Bayeux Embroidery - Karen Eileen Overbey On the Nature of Things in the Bayeux Tapestry and its World - Valerie Allen Making Sounds Visible in the Bayeux Tapestry - R. Brilliant Anglo-Saxon Women, Norman Knights and a 'Third Sex' in the Bayeux Embroidery - Madeline H. Caviness Behind the Bayeux Tapestry - Gale R. Owen-Crocker Embroidery Errors in the Bayeux Tapestry and Their Relevance for Understanding Its Design and Production - Michael Lewis From Hasting to Hastings and Beyond: Inexorable Inevitability on the Bayeux Tapestry - Daniel Terkla Pulling the Arrow Out: The Legend of Harold's Death and the Bayeux Tapestry - Martin Foys The Bayeux Tapestry: A Selective Bibliography - Daniel Terkla

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.

Reviews for The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations

This volume admirably demonstrates a fresh range of expert thinking. [It]is uniformly of interest and good value. JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY Unearth[s] valuable new facts. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW