The Bayeux Tapestry: New Approaches presents a series of papers with quite new reflections on the enigmatic embroidery
The Bayeux Tapestry: New Approaches
Edited by Martin K. Foys
, Karen Eileen Overbey
and Dan Terkla
Imprint: Boydell Press 2009
ISBN: 9781843834700
ABSTRACT
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. It supplements the steady trickle of new books trying to explore the artistic, historical and narrative contexts of this iconic embroidered masterpiece.
CONTRIBUTORS
Dan Terkla, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Stephen D. White, Richard Brilliant, Shirley Ann Brown, Karen Eileen Overbey, Valerie Allen, Madeline H. Caviness, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Michael John Lewis, Martin K. Foys
TABLE OF CONTENT
2 Problematizing Patronage: Odo of Bayeux and the Bayeux Tapestry
3 Auctoritas, Consilium et Auxilium: Images of Authority in the Bayeux Tapestry
4 Taking Place: Reliquaries and Territorial Authority in the Bayeux Embroidery
5 On the Nature of Things in the Bayeux Tapestry and its World
6 Making Sounds Visible in the Bayeux Tapestry
7 Anglo-Saxon Women, Norman Knights and a ‘Third Sex’ in the Bayeux Embroidery
8 Behind the Bayeux Tapestry
9 Embroidery Errors in the Bayeux Tapestry and Their Relevance for Understanding Its Design and Production
10 From Hasting to Hastings and Beyond: Inexorable Inevitability on the Bayeux Tapestry
11 Pulling the Arrow Out: The Legend of Harold’s Death and the Bayeux Tapestry
12 The Bayeux Tapestry: A Selective Bibliography
