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Essays centred round the representation of weaving, both real and imagined, in the early middle ages.

The triple themes of textile, text, and intertext, three powerful and evocative subjects within both Anglo—Saxon studies and Old English literature itself, run through the essays collected here. Chapters evoke the semantic complexities of textile references and images drawn from the Bayeux Tapestry, examine parallels in word—woven poetics, riddling texts, and interwoven homiletic and histori...