The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations

The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations
ISBN-10
1843834707
ISBN-13
9781843834700
Series
The Bayeux Tapestry
Category
Art / History / General
Pages
216
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
Boydell Press
Authors
Karen Eileen Overbey, Dan Terkla, Martin Foys

Description

New 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.

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