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New approaches to what is arguably the most famous artefact from
the Middle Ages. 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. Martin K. Foys is
Professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison;
KarenEileen Overbey is Associate Professor of Art History at Tufts
University; Dan Terkla is Professor of English 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.
First full collection on the seven most significant English mappae
mundi from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Mappae mundi (maps
of the world), beautiful objects in themselves, offer huge insights
into how medieval scholars conceived the world and their place
within it. They are a fusion of "real" geographical locations with
fantastical, geographic, historical, legendary and theological
material. Their production reached its height in England in the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries, with such well-known examples as
the Hereford map, the maps of Matthew Paris, and the Vercelli map.
This volume provides a comprehensive Companion to the seven most
significant English mappae mundi. It begins with a survey of the
maps' materials, types, shapes, sources, contents,
conventions,idiosyncrasies, commissioners and users, moving on to
locate the maps' creation and use in the realms of medieval
rhetoric, Victorine memory theory and clerical pedagogy. It also
establishes the shared history of map and book making, and
demonstrates how pre-and post-Conquest monastic libraries in
Britain fostered and fed their complementary relationship. A
chapter is then devoted to each individual map. An annotated
bibliography of multilingual resourcescompletes the volume. DAN
TERKLA is Emeritus Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan
University; NICK MILLEA is Map Librarian, Bodleian Library,
University of Oxford. Contributors: Nathalie Bouloux, Michelle
Brown. Daniel Connolly, Helen Davies, Gregory Heyworth, Alfred
Hiatt, Marcia Kupfer, Nick Millea, Asa Simon Mittman, Dan Terkla,
Chet Van Duzer.
New approaches to what is arguably the most famous artefact from
the Middle Ages. 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. 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.
The Bayeux Tapestry, perhaps the most famous, yet enigmatic, of
medieval artworks, was the subject of an international conference
at the British Museum in July 2008. This volume publishes 19 of 26
papers delivered at that conference. The physical nature of the
tapestry is examined, including an outline of the artefact's
current display and the latest conservation and research work done
on it, as well as a review of the many repairs and alterations that
have been made to the Tapestry over its long history. Also examined
is the social history of the tapestry, including Shirley Ann
Brown's paper on the Nazis' interest in it as a record of northern
European superiority and Pierre Bouet and Francois Neveux's
suggestion that it is a source for understanding the succession
crisis of 1066. Among those papers focusing on the detail of the
Tapestry, Gale Owen-Crocker examines the Tapestry's faces, Carol
Neuman de Vegvar investigates the Tapestry's drinking vessels and
explores differences in its feast scenes and Michael Lewis compares
objects depicted in the Tapestry and Oxford, Bodleian Library,
Junius 11. The book also includes a resume of four papers given at
the conference published elsewhere and a full black and white
facsimile of the Tapestry, with its figures numbered for ease of
referencing.
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