The Bayeux tapestry
Subtitle: new interpretations
By: edited by Martin K. Foys, Karen Eileen Overbey & Dan Terkla.
Contributors: Foys, Martin K.; Overbey, Karen Eileen.; Terkla, Dan.
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Woodbridge, UK; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781843834700
Subjects: Bayeux tapestry
Description: "In the past two decades, scholarly assessment of the Bayeux Tapestry has begun to consider issues beyond its sources and analogues, dating, origin and purpose, and site of display." "This volume demonstrates the utility of more recent interpretive approaches to this famous artefact, especially with regard to newer concepts of gender, materiality, reception theory, cultural criticism, performativity, spatial narrative, New Historicism, and post-structuralism." "The essays frame vital issues for the future of Tapestry scholarship: they provide original perspectives, and engage with myriad critical concerns: the (New- ) historical layering of meaning, representational systems of gender difference, visuality, memory and architecture, modern obsessions with author-like patronage, post-colonial notions of territory and saintly relics, and the function of historiography and media." "A bibliography of three centuries of critical writings completes the work."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [176]-210) and index.