This book aims to make sense of the Bayeux Tapestry by bringing together answers to a number of questions which this famous hanging presents to the viewer. How did the embroiderers organise the stitching of the Bayeux Tapestry? Are its limited colours used with greater sophistication than viewers have recognised? What do we know of the Tapestry's supporting cast: naked figures in the margins and clerics present at events in the main register? Can we learn anything about the original purpose of the Tapestry from detailed examination of Bayeux Cathedral's 1476 Inventory, the first known reference to the Tapestry's existence? This book combines up-to-the-minute research with an introduction that draws on the contributors' personal observations in order to interrogate the Tapestry's enduring value. Bringing together contributions from leading specialists and newer voices in the field, it will be essential reading for students and scholars of the Bayeux Tapestry, medieval art and culture. -- .
With:
Gale Owen-Crocker
Edited by:
Anna Henderson
Series edited by:
Bill Sherman
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 240mm,
Width: 170mm,
Spine: 21mm
Weight: 726g
ISBN: 9780719095351
ISBN 10: 0719095352
Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 28 June 2016
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction: Making sense of the Bayeux Tapestry - Anna C. Henderson PART I: Readings: deciphering the visual evidence Introduction 1. The front tells the story, the back tells the history: a technical discussion of the embroidering of the Bayeux Tapestry - Alexandra Lester-Makin 2. Colour and imagination in the Bayeux Tapestry - Gale R. Owen-Crocker 3. Figuring out nakedness in the borders of the Bayeux Tapestry - Christopher J. Monk 4. Ecclesiastics in the Bayeux Tapestry - Michael J. Lewis 5. Locating Hastings in 1066: the evidence from the Tapestry - Maggie Kneen PART II: Reworkings: the Bayeux Tapestry's afterlife Introduction 6. Item, une tente très-longue: the inventory of Bayeux Cathedral and its implications for that textile - Elizabeth Carson Pastan 7. A facsimile for everybody: from Foucault to Foys and beyond - Shirley Ann Brown 8. Through Victorian eyes: re-assessing Elizabeth Wardle's replica - Anna C. Henderson 9. Relating history in needlework in the manner of the Bayeux Tapestry: the embroideries of Normandy - Sylvette Lemagnen Afterword - Gale R. Owen Crocker Index -- .
Anna Henderson is a PhD student at the University of Manchester and was formerly Editor of the Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies series Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita, formerly Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture, and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies at the University of Manchester
