Overview
New approaches to what is arguably the most famous artefact from the Middle Ages. 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. Martin K. Foys is Professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison; KarenEileen Overbey is Associate Professor of Art History at Tufts University; Dan Terkla is Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University. Contributors: Valerie Allen, Richard Brilliant, Shirley Ann Brown, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Madeline H. Cavines, Martin K. Foys, Michael John Lewis, Karen Eileen Overbey, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Dan Terkla, Stephen D. White.
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Author: Professor Martin Foys (Customer) ,
Karen Karen Overbey (Customer) ,
Dan Terkla ,
Daniel Terkla
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint: The Boydell Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.20cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 24.40cm
Weight: 0.001kg
ISBN: 9781783271245
ISBN 10: 1783271248
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 16 June 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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This volume admirably demonstrates a fresh range of expert thinking. (It)is uniformly of interest anThis volume admirably demonstrates a fresh range of expert thinking. (It)is uniformly of interest and good valu
This volume admirably demonstrates a fresh range of expert thinking. [It]is uniformly of interest and good value. JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY Unearth[s] valuable new facts. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
This volume admirably demonstrates a fresh range of expert thinking. (It)is uniformly of interest and good value. JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY Unearth(s) valuable new facts. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
Author Information
Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita of the University of Manchester where she was previously Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies.
