The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783271248 ISBN 13: 9781783271245

Publisher: Boydell Press, 2016

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Martin K. Koys is Associate Professor of English at Hood College in Maryland; Karen Eileen Overbey is Assistant Professor of Art History at Tufts University; Dan Terkla is Professor of English and Humanities Coordinator at Illinois Wesleyan University. 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.

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1783271248
• ISBN 13: 9781783271245
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Foys Professor Martin, Karen Overbey Karen, Terkla Dan