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The Bayeux Tapestry and Its Contexts: A Reassessment
Elizabeth Carson Pastan
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Description for The Bayeux Tapestry and Its Contexts: A Reassessment
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A full and provocative reappraisal of the Bayeux "Tapestry", its origins, design and patronage. Aspects of the Bayeux Tapestry (in fact an embroidered hanging) have always remained mysterious, despite much scholarly investigation, not least its design and patron. Here, in the first full-length interdisciplinary approach to the subject, the authors (an art historian and a historian) consider these and other issues. Rejecting the prevalent view that it was commissioned by Odo, the bishop of Bayeux and half-brother of William the Conqueror, or by some other comparable patron, they bring new evidence to bear on the question of its relationship ... Read more
A full and provocative reappraisal of the Bayeux "Tapestry", its origins, design and patronage. Aspects of the Bayeux Tapestry (in fact an embroidered hanging) have always remained mysterious, despite much scholarly investigation, not least its design and patron. Here, in the first full-length interdisciplinary approach to the subject, the authors (an art historian and a historian) consider these and other issues. Rejecting the prevalent view that it was commissioned by Odo, the bishop of Bayeux and half-brother of William the Conqueror, or by some other comparable patron, they bring new evidence to bear on the question of its relationship ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
476
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843839415
SKU
V9781843839415
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Reviews for The Bayeux Tapestry and Its Contexts: A Reassessment
[T]he most interesting, inventive, level-headed, and systematic reassessment of the Tapestry for a long time. It gets us much closer to solving many of the remaining mysteries concerning a source that is so familiar that we often fail to notice its persistent enigmas.
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
I strongly recommend this book; any tapestry scholar will certainly want access ... Read more
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
I strongly recommend this book; any tapestry scholar will certainly want access ... Read more