Making sense of the Bayeux tapestry readings and reworkings
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 -- Figu...
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Manchester University Press
2016
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| Schriftenreihe: | Studies in design & material culture
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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 This book aims to make sense of the Bayeux Tapestry by bringing together answers to a number of questions which this famous hanging presents to the viewer. How did the embroiderers organise the stitching of the Bayeux Tapestry? Are its limited colours used with greater sophistication than viewers have recognised? What do we know of the Tapestry's supporting cast: naked figures in the margins and clerics present at events in the main register? Can we learn anything about the original purpose of the Tapestry from detailed examination of Bayeux Cathedral's 1476 Inventory, the first known reference to the Tapestry's existence? This book combines up-to-the-minute research with an introduction that draws on the contributors' personal observations in order to interrogate the Tapestry's enduring value. Bringing together contributions from leading specialists and newer voices in the field, it will be essential reading for students and scholars of the Bayeux Tapestry, medieval art and culture |
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| Beschreibung: | xii, 16 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln, 209 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9780719095351 978-0-7190-9535-1 |