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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. 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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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 anThis volume admirably demonstrates a fresh range of expert thinking. (It)is uniformly of interest and good valu

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

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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.

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