Research Catalog

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
• Bayeux tapestry (Title)
• 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.

ISBN

• 0719095352
• 9780719095351

LCCN

40026387051

OCLC

• ocn942707160
• 942707160
• SCSB-5864891

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries