Download or read book Proceedings of the Battle Conference written by Marjorie Chibnall and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1994 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 1066 written by Andrew Bridgeford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 900 years the Bayeux Tapestry has preserved one of history's greatest dramas: the Norman Conquest of England, culminating in the death of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Historians have held for centuries that the majestic tapestry trumpets the glory of William the Conqueror and the victorious Normans. But is this true? In 1066, a brilliant piece of historical detective work, Andrew Bridgeford reveals a very different story that reinterprets and recasts the most decisive year in English history. Reading the tapestry as if it were a written text, Bridgeford discovers a wealth of new information subversively and ingeniously encoded in the threads, which appears to undermine the Norman point of view while presenting a secret tale undetected for centuries-an account of the final years of Anglo-Saxon England quite different from the Norman version. Bridgeford brings alive the turbulent 11th century in western Europe, a world of ambitious warrior bishops, court dwarfs, ruthless knights, and powerful women. 1066 offers readers a rare surprise-a book that reconsiders a long-accepted masterpiece, and sheds new light on a pivotal chapter of English history.

Download or read book The Bayeux Tapestry written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most unique objects in the world, the Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts the invasion of England by William the Conqueror on a single length of linen, is reproduced here in full color, with annotations explaining the incredible details it contains.

Download or read book The Bayeux Tapestry written by Lucien Musset and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Bayeux Tapestry, an embroidered strip of linen telling the story of the events starting in 1064 that led up to the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest of England in 1066

Download or read book The Study of the Bayeux Tapestry written by Richard Gameson and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1997 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key articles on the Bayeux tapestry collected in one volume, providing a comprehensive companion to its study.

Download or read book The Bayeux Tapestry written by Martin Kennedy Foys and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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." --Book Jacket.

Download or read book The Bayeux Tapestry written by Shirley Ann Brown and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bayeux Tapestry is a late eleventh-century embroidery, 68.5 metres/224 feet long, that visualizes the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and the subsequent Norman Conquest of England. In the past 300 years, since its rediscovery in Bayeux Cathedral, it has provided fertile ground for the musings, opinions, and investigations of antiquarians, scholars, novelists, journalists, and other interested parties. This volume reconstructs the often turbulent history of this remarkable work of art, and offers a critical analysis and annotated bibliography of the more than 1000 publications which have attempted to answer the many questions it has provoked. Discussions have focused on the origin of the Tapestry - workshop location, patronage, artistic sources, dating, and purpose. The narrative has been interpreted as Norman propaganda by some, as English propaganda by others. Its legitimacy as an historical document has been evaluated, often with contradictory conclusions, and attention has been drawn to its value as a reflection of contemporary life and customs. The Latin inscriptions have been analysed and shown to exhibit both English and French characteristics. Links have been proposed with English and French epic poetry, while recent scholarship has brought literary and communication theories into discussions. Its numerous reproductions, facsimiles, and spinoffs attest efforts to make it known to a greater audience, while emphasizing its relevance for modern viewers. It has become the world's most famous textile.

Download or read book Threads of Life written by Clare Hunter and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This globe-spanning history of sewing and embroidery, culture and protest, is “an astonishing feat . . . richly textured and moving” (The Sunday Times, UK). In 1970s Argentina, mothers marched in headscarves embroidered with the names of their “disappeared” children. In Tudor, England, when Mary, Queen of Scots, was under house arrest, her needlework carried her messages to the outside world. From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry, World War I soldiers coping with PTSD, and the maps sewn by schoolgirls in the New World, to the AIDS quilt, Hmong story clothes, and pink pussyhats, women and men have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances. Threads of Life is a chronicle of identity, memory, power, and politics told through the stories of needlework. Clare Hunter, master of the craft, threads her own narrative as she takes us over centuries and across continents—from medieval France to contemporary Mexico and the United States, and from a POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland—to celebrate the universal beauty and power of sewing.

Download or read book La tapisserie de Bayeux written by Lucien Musset and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservée au Centre Guillaume le Conquérant, la tapisserie de Bayeux, oeuvre anonyme et non datée, est l'un des joyaux de la Normandie romane. Richesse du travail, longueur exceptionnelle, autant d'atouts pour attirer le public et susciter de la part des historiens une grande curiosité. Un témoignage irremplaçable sur la manière de vivre au XIe siècle. Chaque scène a son commentaire en regard.

Download or read book 1066 written by Patrick Weber and published by Europe Comics. This book was released on 2015-11-10T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Edward of England is dead. Edward's son Harold, one of the potential successors, renounces his oath to yield the throne to William of Normandy. From that day forth, William will have no peace until his rightful claim to the throne is acknowledged. As the famous Halley comet soars across the heavens, giving rise to much speculation among the scholars of the time, William, Duke of Normandy, launches into the arrangements for the conquest that will change the face of England -- one of the most formidable military expeditions History has ever seen. This is a tale of ambition, broken oaths, battles, love, death and glory.

Download or read book The Bayeux Tapestry Elucidated written by John Collingwood Bruce and published by London, J. R. Smith. This book was released on 1856 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Anglo Norman Studies XXXVIII written by Elisabeth M. C. van Houts and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turold, Wadard and Vitalis: Why Are They on the Bayeux Tapestry?

Download or read book The Bayeux Tapestry written by Pierre Bouet and published by Presses Universitaires de Caen. This book was released on 2004 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bayeux Tapestry written by and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1985 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Bayeux Tapestry is unique both as a historical document and as a work of art. It was made soon after the Battle of Hastings in 1066, and it tells the story of the events that led up to William the Conqueror's invasion of England and the battle itself."--Amazon.

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Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collections of Tapestry and Embroidery in the South Kensington Museum written by South Kensington Museum and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: