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The Bayeux tapestry and its contexts : a reassessment /

Aspects of the Bayeux Tapestry (in fact an embroidered hanging) have always remained mysterious, despite much scholarly investigation, not least its design and patron. Here, in the first full-length interdisciplinary approach to the subject, the authors (an art historian and a historian) consider th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pastan, Elizabeth Carson, 1955-
Other Authors: White, Stephen D., 1945-, Gilbert, Kate
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, New York : Boydell Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Bayeux tapestry.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Material Context of the Bayeux Embroidery: Manufacture, Display, and Literary References
  • 2. Is the Bayeux Embroidery a Record of Events?
  • 3. Imagined Patronage
  • 4. The Prosopography of the Bayeux Embroidery and the Community of St Augustine's, Canterbury
  • 5. Locating Harold's Oath and Tracing His Itinerary
  • 6. Bishop Odo at the Banquet
  • 7. The Fables in the Borders
  • 8. Representing Architecture
  • 9. Legal Ceremonies and the Question of Legitimacy
  • 10. The Fall of the English
  • 11. Quid faciat ... Scollandus? The Abbey Church of St Augustine's, c. 1073-1100.