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Making sense of the Bayeux Tapestry: Readings and reworkings (Studies in Design MUP)
Anna Henderson (Ed.)
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Description for Making sense of the Bayeux Tapestry: Readings and reworkings (Studies in Design MUP)
Hardcover. This volume brings together many aspects of the Tapestry: the practical skills involved in making the embroidery, aspects of its iconography, its first documented association with Bayeux in an inventory of 1476, its later copying and reproduction in different media and its role as a model for the production of stitched narrative friezes today. Editor(s): Henderson, Anna. Series Editor(s): Sherman, Bill. Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, 13 colour illustrations, 78 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AFWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 248 x 24. Weight in Grams: 586.
This book aims to make sense of the Bayeux Tapestry by bringing together answers to a number of questions which this famous hanging presents to the viewer.
How did the embroiderers organise the stitching of the Bayeux Tapestry? Are its limited colours used with greater sophistication than viewers have recognised? What do we know of the Tapestry's supporting cast: naked figures in the margins and clerics present at events in the main register? Can we learn anything about the original purpose of the Tapestry from detailed examination of Bayeux Cathedral's 1476 Inventory, the first known reference to the Tapestry's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Studies in Design and Material Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719095351
SKU
V9780719095351
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99-15
About Anna Henderson (Ed.)
Anna Henderson is a PhD student at the University of Manchester and was formerly Editor of the Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies series Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita, formerly Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture, and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies at the University of Manchester -- .
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