Overview

This volume brings together many aspects of the Tapestry: the practical skills involved in making the embroidery, aspects of its iconography, its first documented association with Bayeux in an inventory of 1476, its later copying and reproduction in different media and its role as a model for the production of stitched narrative friezes today. -- .

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Author:   Anna Henderson ,  Gale Owen-Crocker ,  Bill Sherman
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.726kg
ISBN:  

9780719095351

ISBN 10:   0719095352
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   28 June 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Making sense of the Bayeux Tapestry - Anna C. Henderson PART I: Readings: deciphering the visual evidence Introduction 1. The front tells the story, the back tells the history: a technical discussion of the embroidering of the Bayeux Tapestry - Alexandra Lester-Makin 2. Colour and imagination in the Bayeux Tapestry - Gale R. Owen-Crocker 3. Figuring out nakedness in the borders of the Bayeux Tapestry - Christopher J. Monk 4. Ecclesiastics in the Bayeux Tapestry - Michael J. Lewis 5. Locating Hastings in 1066: the evidence from the Tapestry - Maggie Kneen PART II: Reworkings: the Bayeux Tapestry's afterlife Introduction 6. Item, une tente très-longue: the inventory of Bayeux Cathedral and its implications for that textile - Elizabeth Carson Pastan 7. A facsimile for everybody: from Foucault to Foys and beyond - Shirley Ann Brown 8. Through Victorian eyes: re-assessing Elizabeth Wardle's replica - Anna C. Henderson 9. Relating history in needlework in the manner of the Bayeux Tapestry: the embroideries of Normandy - Sylvette Lemagnen Afterword - Gale R. Owen Crocker Index -- .

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Anna Henderson is a PhD student at the University of Manchester and was formerly Editor of the Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies series Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita, formerly Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture, and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies at the University of Manchester -- .

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