"The Bayeux Tapestry: New Approaches" ed. by Michael J. Lewis, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, and Dan Terkla
Proceedings of a conference at the British Museum
Oxbow Books, | 2011 | ISBN: 1842179764 9781842179765 9781842175361 | 213 pages | PDF | 92 MB
The Bayeux Tapestry, perhaps the most famous, yet enigmatic, of medieval artworks, was the subject of an international conference at the British Museum in July 2008. This volume publishes 19 of 26 papers delivered at that conference.
The physical nature of the tapestry is examined, including an outline of the artefact's current display and the latest conservation and research work done on it, as well as a review of the many repairs and alterations that have been made to the Tapestry over its long history. Also examined is the social history of the tapestry, including Shirley Ann Brown's paper on the Nazi's interest in it as a record of northern European superiority and Pierre Bouet and Francois Neveux's suggestion that it is a source for understanding the succession crisis of 1066.
Contents Illustrations
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
The Patronage of Queen Edith
The Breton Campaign and the Possibility that the Bayeux Tapestry was Produced in the Loire Valley (St Florent of Saumur)
Decoding Operation Matilda: the Bayeux Tapestry, the Nazis and German Pan-Nationalism
Shirley Ann Brown
Backing Up the Virtual Bayeux Tapestries: facsimiles as attachment disorders, or turning over the other side of the underneath
The Hidden Face of the Bayeux Tapestry
The Storage Chest and the Repairs and Changes in the Bayeux Tapestry
How Big is It – and Was It?
Edward the Confessor’s Succession According to the Bayeux Tapestry
How to be Rich: the presentation of Earl Harold in the early sections of the Bayeux Tapestry
Where a Cleric and Ælfgyva…
Robert of Mortain and the Bayeux Tapestry
Hic Est Miles: some images of three knights, Turold, Wadard and Vital
Leofwine and Gyrth: depicting the death of the brothers in the Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry: faces and places
The Bayeux Tapestry and Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 11
Dining with Distinction: drinking vessels and difference in the Bayeux Tapestry feast scenes
Slippery as an Eel: Harold’s ambiguous heroics in the Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry, Dendrochronology, and Hadstock Door
Portals of the Bayeux Tapestry: visual experience, spatial representation and oral performance
Abstracts of conference papers published elsewhere
Bibliography
Facsimile of the Bayeux Tapestry (City of Bayeux)
Index
with TOC BookMarkLinks
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