The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations"In the past two decades, scholarly assessment of the Bayeux Tapestry has begun to consider issues beyond its sources and analogues, dating, origin and purpose, and site of display." "This volume demonstrates the utility of more recent interpretive approaches to this famous artefact, especially with regard to newer concepts of gender, materiality, reception theory, cultural criticism, performativity, spatial narrative, New Historicism, and post-structuralism." "The essays frame vital issues for the future of Tapestry scholarship: they provide original perspectives, and engage with myriad critical concerns: the (New-) historical layering of meaning, representational systems of gender difference, visuality, memory and architecture, modern obsessions with author-like patronage, post-colonial notions of territory and saintly relics, and the function of historiography and media." "A bibliography of three centuries of critical writings completes the work." --Book Jacket. |
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Contents
Images of Authority | 25 |
Reliquaries and Territorial Authority in | 36 |
On the Nature of Things in the Bayeux Tapestry and | 51 |
Copyright | |
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Abbey Abbot Adelae Comitissae Anglo-Norman Anglo-Norman Studies Anglorum appears arrow Battle of Hastings Baudri Bayeux Embroidery Bayeux Tapestry Bedat Bernstein Bishop border Bouet British Library BTDE Canterbury Carmen de Hastingae Cathedral Chanson Chronicle church Colour Plate cultural David depiction ducal Duke William Edward eleventh century Embroidering the Facts Embroidery English feudal figure Gameson gender Gesta Guillelmi Gesta Normannorum Ducum gesture Guy of Ponthieu Harold's death Hastingae Proelio horses Howard Bloch images inscription Jumieges knights lines male Manuscripts masculinity Middle Ages Montfaucon narrative Norman Conquest Normandy oath Odo of Bayeux Odo's Owen-Crocker Oxford patron patronage R. H. C. Davis Rasyphus and Ravennus relics reliquary representation Rhetoric of Power Roland role Romanesque Rouen saints scene sexual shrine St Augustine's stem stitch Stothard Suger sword Tapestry's textile tion trans twelfth-century vassal viewer visual Wace Wadard William of Jumieges William of Malmesbury William of Poitiers Wilson women Woodbridge
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations |
| Editors | Martin Kennedy Foys, Karen Eileen Overbey, Dan Terkla |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Boydell Press, 2009 |
| ISBN | 1843834707, 9781843834700 |
| Length | 216 pages |
| Subjects | › › Art / History / General |
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