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Book SynopsisNew 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. 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.
Trade ReviewThis volume admirably demonstrates a fresh range of expert thinking. [It]is uniformly of interest and good value. * JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY *
Unearth[s] valuable new facts. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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
