The Bayeux Tapestry Collected Papers 1st Edition by Gale Owen-Crocker ISBN 978-1409446637 1409446638

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ISBN 10: 1409446638

ISBN 13:  978-1409446637

Author:  Gale R. Owen-Crocker

This collection of fifteen papers ranges from the author’s initial interest in the Tapestry as a source of information on early medieval dress, through to her startling recognition of the embroidery’s sophisticated narrative structure. Developing the work of previous authors who had identified graphic models for some of the images, she argues that not just the images themselves but the contexts from which they were drawn should be taken in to account in ‘reading’ the messages of the Tapestry. In further investigating the minds and hands behind this, the largest non-architectural artefact surviving from the Middle Ages, she ranges over the seams, the embroidery stitches, the language and artistry of the inscription, the potential significance of borders and the gestures of the figures in the main register, always scrutinising detail informatively. She identifies an over-riding conception and house style in the Tapestry, but also sees different hands at work in both needlecraft and graphics. Most intriguingly, she recognises an sub-contractor with a Roman source and a clownish wit. The author is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at The University of Manchester, UK, a specialist in Old English poetry, Anglo-Saxon material culture and medieval dress and textiles.

Table of contents: 

TEXTILE

I Behind the Bayeux Tapestry

The Bayeux Tapestry: new interpretations, eds M.K. Foys, K.E. Overbey, and D. Terkla. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2009

II The Bayeux Tapestry’: invisible seams and visible boundaries Anglo-Saxon England 31, 2002, pp. 257-73

III Fur, feathers, skin, fibre, wood: representational techniques in the Bayeux Tapestry

Previously unpublished. An earlier version was read as a paper at the Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, May 2009

SOURCES

IV Reading the Bayeux Tapestry through Canterbury eyes Anglo-Saxcons. Studies Presented to Cyril Ray Hart, eds S. Keynes and A.P. Smyth. Dublin: Four Courts, 2006

V Stylistic variation and Roman influence in the Bayeux Tapestry

The Bayeux Tapestry revisited, ed. M. Crafton (Peregrinations 2, issue 4), 2009 (Online journal http://peregrinations.kenyon. edu/vol2_3/current/fb4.pdf), pp. 51-96

NARRATIVE DEVICES

VI The embroidered word: text in the Bayeux Tapestry Medieval Clothing and Textiles 2, 2006

VII Telling a tale: narrative techniques in the Bayeux Tapestry and the Old English epic Beowulf

Medieval Art: recent perspectives, eds G.R. Owen-Crocker and T. Grabam. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998

VIII Brothers, rivals and the geometry of the Bayeux Tapestry King Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry, ed. G.R. Owen-Crocker.

Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005

BORDERS

IX Squawk talk: commentary by birds in the Bayeux Tapestry? Anglo-Saxon England 34, 2005

X The Bayeux Tapestry: the voice from the border Signs on the Edge. Space, Text and Margin in Medieval Manuscripts, eds S.L. Keefer and R.H. Bremmer Jr (Medievalia Groningana). Leuven: Peeters, 2007

DRESS

XI The Bayeux Tapestry’: culottes, tunics and garters, and the making of the hanging

Costume 28, 1994, pp. 1-9

XII Dress and authority in the Bayeux Tapestry Aspects of Power and Authority in the Middle Ages (International Medieval Research Series 14), eds B. Bolton and C. Merk. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007, pp. 53-72 with some rewriting as required by the original publisher

DETAIL

XIII Embroidered wood: animal-headed posts in the Bayeux Tapestry’

Aedificia nova: studies in bonor of Rosemary Cramp, eds C.E. Karkov and H. Damico. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2008

XIV The interpretation of gesture in the Bayeux Tapestry Anglo-Norman Studies 29 (Proceedings of the Battle Conference, 2006), 2007

XV Hawks and horse-trappings: the insignia of rank The Battle of Maldon AD 991, ed. D. Scragg. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991

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