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The Bayeux Tapestry - A Critically Annotated Bibliography (Hardcover)
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The Bayeux Tapestry - A Critically Annotated Bibliography (Hardcover)
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Commanding its own museum and over 200 years of examination,
observation and scholarship, the monumental embroidery, known
popularly as the Bayeux Tapestry and documenting William the
Conqueror's invasion of England in October 1066, is perhaps the
most important surviving artifact of the Middle Ages. This
magnificent textile, both celebrated and panned, is both enigmatic
artwork and confounding historical record. With over 1780 entries,
Szabo and Kuefler offer the largest and most heavily annotated
bibliography on the Tapestry ever written. Notably, the Bayeux
Tapestry has produced some of the most compelling questions of the
medieval period: Who commissioned it and for what purpose? What was
the intended venue for its display? Who was the designer and who
executed the enormous task of its manufacture? How does it inform
our understanding of eleventh-century life? And who was the
mysterious Aelfgyva, depicted in the Tapestry's main register? This
book is an effort to capture and describe the scholarship that
attempts to answer these questions. But the bibliography also
reflects the popularity of the Tapestry in literature covering a
surprisingly broad array of subjects. The inclusion of this
material will assist future scholars who may study references to
the work in contemporary non-fiction and popular works as well as
use of the Bayeux Tapestry as a primary and secondary source in the
classroom. The monographs, articles and other works cited in this
bibliography reflect dozens of research areas. Major themes are:
the Tapestry as a source of information for eleventh-century
material culture, its role in telling the story of the Battle of
Hastings and events leading up to the invasion, patronage of the
Tapestry, biographical detail on known historical figures in the
Tapestry, arms and armor, medieval warfare strategy and techniques,
opus anglicanum (the Anglo-Saxon needlework tradition),
preservation and display of the artifact, the Tapestry's place in
medieval art, the embroidery's depiction of medieval and Romanesque
architecture, and the life of the Bayeux Tapestry itself.
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