This book makes available to the wider public the fruits of research carried out over the past twenty years by some of the most eminent of Bayeux Tapestry scholars
The Bayeux Tapestry: Embroidering the Facts of History
By Pierre Bouet, François Neveux and Brian Levy (ed)
Presses universitaires de Caen 2004
ISBN : 2-84133-213-6
ABSTRACT
This volume, published simultaneously in French and English,with reproductions of the Tapestry and other illustrations in colour, originated as an international colloquium held in October 1999 at the Cultural Centre of Cerisy-la-Salle, in Normandy. It makes available to the wider public the fruits of research carried out over the past twenty years by some of the most eminent of Bayeux Tapestry scholars. The aim of the original colloquium was threefold : to reveal for the first time details of the work carried out by the team of textile specialists engaged in the full scientific study of the Tapestry in 1982-83 ; to publish the latest historical research on the events recorded by the Tapestry (with particular reference to its source material) ; and finally to analyse the various techniques involved in the creation of this unique work of art.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Shirley Ann Brown: The Bayeux Tapestry: A Critical Analysis of Publications 1988-1999
- Sylvette Lemagnen: The Bayeux Tapestry under German Occupation
- Hervé Pelvillain: Publication of Results of the Scientific and Technical Study 1982-1983
- Nicole de Reyniès: Bayeux Tapestry or Bayeux Embroidery?
- Marie-Hélène Didier: The Bayeux Tapestry: an Example of Textile Embroidery
- Isabelle Bédat and Béatrice Girault-Kurtzeman: The Technical Study of the Bayeux Embroidery
- Gabriel Vial: The Bayeux Embroidery and its Backing Strip
- Brigitte Oger: Results of the Scientific Tests
- Marjorie Chibnall: Orderic Vitalis and the Bayeux Tapestry
- Elisabeth van Houts: The Echo of the Conquest in the Latin Sources: Duchess Matilda, her Daughters and the Enigma of the Golden Child
- Gillette Labory: The Norman Conquest in the Grande Chronique de Normandie
- François Neveux: The Bayeux Tapestry as Original Source
- Pierre Bouet: Is the Bayeux Tapestry Pro-English?
- Valerie I.J. Flint: The Bayeux Tapestry, the Bishop and the Laity
- Olivier Renaudeau: The Bayeux Tapestry and its Depiction of Costume: The Problems of Interpretation
- Anne-Marie Flambard Héricher: Archaeology and the Bayeux Tapestry
- John France: The Importance of the Bayeux Tapestry for the History of War
- Maylis Baylé: The Bayeux Tapestry and Decoration in North-Western Europe: Style and Composition
- Brian J. Levy: Trifunctionality and Epic Patterning in the Bayeux Tapestry
- Barbara English: The Coronation of Harold in the Bayeux Tapestry
- David Hill: The Bayeux Tapestry: The Establishment of a Text
SUMMARY
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