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Key articles on the Bayeux tapestry collected in one volume,
providing a comprehensive companion to its study. This volume
presents a selection from the classic literature on the tapestry,
providing a comprehensive companion to its study. The articles have
been carefully chosen in order to provide a strong, balanced
coverage of most aspects of the tapestry; all the major themes -
the material fabric of the artefact, its origin, its relation to
other early sources, its visual language, the form and function of
the inscriptions, the work's general meaning and purpose, and the
way it was perceived - are discussed in authoritative contributions
collected here. The volume also includes substantial new essays by
the editor on studying the Bayeux tapestry, and on its origin, art,
and message. Contributors: RICHARD GAMESON, CHARLES STOTHARD,
EDWARD FREEMAN, W.R. LETHERBY, CHARLES PRENTOUT, SIMONE BERTRAND,
RENELEPELLEY, C.R. DODWELL, N.P. BROOKS, H.E.J. COWDREY, H.E.
WALKER, RICHARD BRILLIANT, SHIRLEY ANNE BROWN, MICHAEL HERREN
This is the first comprehensive survey of the history of the book
in Britain from Roman through Anglo-Saxon to early Norman times.
The expert contributions explore the physical form of books,
including their codicology, script and decoration; examine the
circulation and exchange of manuscripts and texts between England,
Ireland, the Celtic realms and the Continent; discuss the
production, presentation and use of different classes of texts,
ranging from fine service books to functional schoolbooks; and
evaluate the libraries that can be associated with particular
individuals and institutions. The result is an authoritative
account of the first millennium of the history of books,
manuscript-making and literary culture in Britain which, intimately
linked to its cultural contexts, sheds vital light on broader
patterns of political, ecclesiastical and cultural history
extending from the period of the Vindolanda writing tablets through
the age of Bede and Alcuin to the time of the Domesday Book.
The significance of the Bible in the life, thought and culture of
the early Middle Ages can hardly be overstated. Here eleven linked
studies, embracing palaeography, history, art history, theology and
textual scholarship, examine and interpret the evidence of Bible
manuscripts (including gospel books and Psalters) in their cultural
context from late antiquity to the thirteenth century. Subjects
include the earliest Bible manuscripts, the Gospels in a missionary
context, the scriptorium of Tours, the development of the early
glossed Psalter, the Old Testament in tenth- and eleventh-century
England, the Italian Giant Bibles, the origins of the Paris Bible,
the illustration of the early Gothic Psalter and the planning and
production of the Hamburg Bible. Together these essays provide a
broad-ranging, authoritative treatment of themes which are of
central importance for the history and culture of the times.
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