The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations

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Martin Kennedy Foys, Karen Eileen Overbey, Dan Terkla
Boydell Press, 2009 - Art - 216 pages
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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Odo of Bayeux and the Bayeux
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BTDE panels 47 Wilson plates
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BTDE panel 10 Wilson plate
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