Making sense of the Bayeux tapestry : readings and reworkings / edited by Anna C. Henderson with Gale R. Owen-Crocker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Henderson, Anna C., editor.

Owen-Crocker, Gale R., writer of afterword, editor.

Series:

Studies in design and material culture

Studies in design & material culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bayeux tapestry.

Bayeux tapestry (Title).

Bayeux tapestry--Influence.

Hastings, Battle of, England, 1066, in art.

Hastings, Battle of (England : 1066) in art.

Symbolism in art.

Embroidery, Medieval.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

xii, 209 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.

Summary:

This book combines up-to-the-minute research with an introduction that draws on the contributors' personal observations in order to interrogate the Bayeux Tapestry's enduring value. Issues under consideration include how the embroiderers organised the stitching of the Tapestry, and whether the limited colour palette was used with greater sophistication than viewers have hitherto recognised. What we know of the Tapestry's supporting cast is also discussed, specifically the naked figures in the margins and the clerics present at events in the main register. With regard to the context of its production, can we learn more about the original purpose of the Tapestry from detailed examination of Bayeux Cathedral's inventory of 1476, the first known reference to its existence? Finally, what do the numerous facsimiles generated from the time of its discovery to the present day, and the twentieth-century emergence of new histories embroidered in the style of the Bayeux Tapestry, tell us about its continuing relevance? Making sense of the Bayeux Tapestry brings together contributions from leading specialists Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Shirley Ann Brown, Elizabeth Postan, and the Tapestry's curator, Sylvette Lemagnen, together with newer voices in the field. The collection will be essential reading for students and scholars of the Bayeux Tapestry and medieval art and culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: making sense of the Bayeux tapestry / Anna C. Henderson

The front tells the story, the back tells the history: a 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 embroideries of Normandy / Sylvette Lemagnen

Afterword / Gale R. Owen-Crocker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780719095351

0719095352

OCLC:

942707160

Publisher Number:

99970395287