Description
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together many aspects of the Tapestry: the practical skills involved in making the embroidery, aspects of its iconography, its first documented association with Bayeux in an inventory of 1476, its later copying and reproduction in different media and its role as a model for the production of stitched narrative friezes today.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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
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