The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations

New approaches to what is arguably the most famous artefact from the Middle Ages.

List of contents

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

Summary

New approaches to what is arguably the most famous artefact from the Middle Ages.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Foys, Martin K. Foys, Karen Karen Overbey, Karen Eileen Overbey, Elizabeth Carso Pastan, Dan Terkla, Daniel Terkla
• Assisted by: Martin Foys (Editor), Martin (Customer) Foys (Editor), Martin K. Foys (Editor), Professor Martin (Customer) Foys (Editor), Karen Karen Overbey (Editor), Karen (Customer) Karen Overbey (Editor), Karen Eileen Overbey (Editor), Dan Terkla (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2009
• EAN: 9781843834700
• ISBN: 978-1-84383-470-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 244 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 816 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Textilkunst, Mittelalterlicher Stil, Europäische Geschichte, 1000 bis 1500 nach Christus, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte