A01=Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Anglo-Saxon material culture
Author_Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Bayeux Tapestry
Canterbury eyes
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Category=AGA
Dress and authority
early medieval craftsmanship
embroidery techniques study
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feathers
fibre
iconographic symbolism
manuscript art interpretation
medieval textile analysis
narrative structure in historical embroidery
skin
Squawk talk
Stylistic variation
wood
Product details
- ISBN 9780367601843
- Weight: 700g
- Dimensions: 169 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This collection of fifteen papers ranges from the author's initial interest in the Tapestry as a source of information on early medieval dress, through to her startling recognition of the embroidery's sophisticated narrative structure. Developing the work of previous authors who had identified graphic models for some of the images, she argues that not just the images themselves but the contexts from which they were drawn should be taken in to account in 'reading' the messages of the Tapestry. In further investigating the minds and hands behind this, the largest non-architectural artefact surviving from the Middle Ages, she ranges over the seams, the embroidery stitches, the language and artistry of the inscription, the potential significance of borders and the gestures of the figures in the main register, always scrutinising detail informatively. She identifies an over-riding conception and house style in the Tapestry, but also sees different hands at work in both needlecraft and graphics. Most intriguingly, she recognises an sub-contractor with a Roman source and a clownish wit. The author is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at The University of Manchester, UK, a specialist in Old English poetry, Anglo-Saxon material culture and medieval dress and textiles.
Gale Owen-Crocker is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester, UK.
