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Making sense of the Bayeux tapestry : readings and reworkings

Title
Making sense of the Bayeux tapestry : readings and reworkings / edited by Anna C. Henderson with Gale R. Owen-Crocker.
Publication
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.

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Additional Authors
  • Henderson, Anna C.
  • Owen-Crocker, Gale R.
  • Lester-Makin, Alexandra
Description
xii, 209 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
Series Statement
Studies in design & material culture
Uniform Title
Studies in design and material culture.
Subject
  • Bayeux tapestry
  • Bayeux tapestry > Influence
  • Hastings, Battle of, England, 1066, in art
  • Symbolism in art
  • Embroidery, Medieval
  • Hastings, Battle of (England : 1066) in art
  • Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: making sense of the Bayeux tapestry / Anna C. Henderson -- The front tells the story, the back tells the history: the technical discussion of the embroidering of the Bayeux tapestry / Alexandra Lester-Makin -- Colour and imagination in the Bayeux tapestry / Gale R. Owen-Crocker -- Figuring out nakedness in the borders of the Bayeux tapestry / Christopher J. Monk -- Ecclesiastics in the Bayeux tapestry / Michael J. Lewis -- Locating Hasting in 1066: the evidence from the tapestry / Maggie Kneen -- Item, une tente très-longue: the inventory of Bayeux Cathedral and its implications for that textile / Elizabeth Carson Pastan -- A facsimile for everybody: from Foucault to Foys and beyond / Shirley Ann Brown -- Through Victorian eyes: re-assessing Elizabeth Wardle's replica / Anna C. Henderson -- Relating history in needlework in the manner of the Bayeux tapestry: the emborideries of Normandy / Sylvette Lemagnen -- Afterword / Gale R. Owen-Crocker.
Call Number
JQE 16-651
ISBN
  • 0719095352
  • 9780719095351
OCLC
942707160
Title
Making sense of the Bayeux tapestry : readings and reworkings / edited by Anna C. Henderson with Gale R. Owen-Crocker.
Publisher
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Studies in design & material culture
Studies in design and material culture.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Henderson, Anna C., author, editor.
Owen-Crocker, Gale R., author, writer of afterword, editor.
Lester-Makin, Alexandra. Front tells the story, the back tells the history.
Research Call Number
JQE 16-651
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