The Bayeux Tapestry. Collected Papers

Descripción

GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER. The Bayeux Tapestry. Collected Papers, Routledge, 2012, 374 p.
ISBN: 978-1409446637

En este libro se recopilan quince trabajos surgidos a raíz del interés por el Tapiz de Bayeux como fuente de información sobre el vestido medieval, a partir del reconocimiento de la sofisticada estructura narrativa de la obra.

Part I Textile:

Behind the Bayeux Tapestry.
The Bayeux ‘tapestry’: invisible seams and visible boundaries.
Fur, feathers, skin, fibre, wood: representational techniques in the Bayeux Tapestry.

Part II Sources:

Reading the Bayeux Tapestry through Canterbury eyes.
Stylistic variation in the Bayeux Tapestry: revisiting a Roman analogue.

Part III Narrative Devices:

The embroidered word: text in the Bayeux Tapestry.
Telling a tale: narrative techniques in the Bayeux Tapestry and the Old English epic Beowulf.
Brothers, rivals and the geometry of the Bayeux Tapestry.

Part IV Borders:

Squawk talk: commentary by birds in the Bayeux Tapestry.
The Bayeux tapestry: the voice from the border.

Part V Dress:

The costume of the Bayeux ‘tapestry’: culottes, tunics, garters and the construction of the hanging.
Dress and authority on the Bayeux Tapestry.

Part VI Detail:

Embroidered wood: animal-headed posts in the Bayeux Tapestry.
The interpretation of gesture in the Bayeux Tapestry.
Hawks and horse-trappings.