The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations
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.

Martin K. Foys is Professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison; KarenEileen Overbey is Associate Professor of Art History at Tufts University; Dan Terkla is Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University.

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.
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The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations
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.

Martin K. Foys is Professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison; KarenEileen Overbey is Associate Professor of Art History at Tufts University; Dan Terkla is Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University.

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.
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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.

Martin K. Foys is Professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison; KarenEileen Overbey is Associate Professor of Art History at Tufts University; Dan Terkla is Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781783271245
Publisher: BOYDELL & BREWER INC
Publication date: 06/16/2016
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 6.77(w) x 9.61(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vi

List of Contributors viii

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: Fifty Years of (Re)Producing the Bayeux Tapestry xii

Problematizing Patronage: Odo of Bayeux and the Bayeux Tapestry Elizabeth Carson Pastan Stephen D. White 1

Auctoritas, Consilium et Auxilium: Images of Authority in the Bayeux Tapestry Shirley Ann Brown 25

Taking Place: Reliquaries and Territorial Authority in the Bayeux Embroidery Karen Eileen Overbey 36

On the Nature of Things in the Bayeux Tapestry and its World Valerie Allen 51

Making Sounds Visible in the Bayeux Tapestry Richard Brilliant 71

Anglo-Saxon Women, Norman Knights and a 'Third Sex' in the Bayeux Embroidery Madeline H. Caviness 85

Behind the Bayeux Tapestry Gale R. Owen-Crocker 119

Embroidery Errors in the Bayeux Tapestry and their Relevance for Understanding its Design and Production Michael John Lewis 130

From Hastingus to Hastings and Beyond: Inexorable Inevitability on the Bayeux Tapestry Dan Terkla 141

Pulling the Arrow Out: The Legend of Harold's Death and the Bayeux Tapestry Martin K. Foys 158

The Bayeux Tapestry: A Selective Bibliography Dan Terkla 176

Index 211

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