New Publication: ‘A Collaborative Tapestry in Honour of Shirley Ann Brown: The Bayeux Tapestry Seen by her Colleagues and Friends’, edited by Sylvette Lemagnen and Gale Owen-Crocker

Une fresque brodée en l’honneur de Shirley Ann Brown: La Tapisserie de Bayeux vue par ses collègues et amis

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These 16 essays in honour of a distinguished Bayeux Tapestry scholar consider the contexts of the Tapestry’s creation and preservation; new studies of its fabric, also its images; plus accounts of new creative and commemorative works inspired by it. David Bates emphasises the cross-Channel, indeed the European, culture underlying the Tapestry’s creation. Pierre Bouet and François Neveux seek to recognise the role of the Bretons in 11th-century Norman history and the conquest of England. Elizabeth Carson Pastan discusses the lost relics of Bayeux inventoried alongside the Tapestry. Ulrich Kuder and Michael Lewis revisit and evaluate theories about aspects of the Tapestry’s images. Alexandra Lester-Makin uses microscopic images of a single scene to reveal details of how the embroidery was worked. Sarah Keefer explores the liturgy which Harold might have heard when he attended church before setting out to sea. Gale Owen-Crocker analyses the role of boundaries, and the breaking of them, in the Tapestry’s images and Malcolm Thurlby considers its buildings in terms of contemporary architecture. Michael Herren discusses the verisimilitude of art works in classical and medieval poetry and shows how they differ. Anna Henderson and Lise Gjedssø Bertelsen examine recent, Bayeux-inspired historical needlework in the British Isles and Denmark respectively, Bruce Bobick traces the history of an American facsimile. Sylvette Lemagnen addresses novels written under the influence of the Bayeux Tapestry, and Daisy Black the evolution of her own play. Clémentine Paquier-Berthelot considers the various ways in which scholars have attempted to reference precise points in the Tapestry.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction in English / Introduction en français
Curriculum vitae and publications of Shirley Ann Brown
Contributors / Auteurs
Summaries of articles in English / Résumés analytiques des articles en français
List of illustrations

Part I: The Physical and Visual

Alexandra Lester-Makin, The Bayeux Tapestry as never seen before: what microscopic imaging can tell us about the hanging’s creation
Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Pushing the boundaries: interaction with frames and borders in the Bayeux Tapestry
Sarah Larratt Keefer, ‘Guide in prosperity the journey of Thy servant’: Harold’s voyage and mid-eleventh century liturgy
Malcolm Thurlby, Observations on architectural representations in the Bayeux Tapestry
Ulrich Kuder, Valuable discoveries, plausible explanations, transient hypotheses: looking back on Bayeux Tapestry studies
Michael Lewis, The Ælfgyva of the Bayeux Tapestry

Panorama

Part II: Context

David Bates, The cross-channel world of the Bayeux Tapestry
Elizabeth Carson Pastan, ‘Fuga sacra’: inventory and legacy at Bayeux Cathedral
Pierre Bouet & François Neveux, Normands et Bretons au XIe siècle. De la confrontation à la collaboration

Part III: Inspiration

Michael W. Herren, Extracting truth from poetry: revisiting Baudri of Bourgueil and the Bayeux Tapestry
Anna Henderson, Tapestries for our times: The Bayeux Tapestry’s modern British counterparts and their stitchers
Lise Gjedssø Bertelsen, From the Bayeux Tapestry to the Swedish Pilgrim Tapestry to the Danish Elsinore Tapestry
Bruce Bobick, The University of West Georgia replica of the Bayeux Tapestry: its conception, creation and dedication
Sylvette Lemagnen, La Tapisserie de Bayeux à la source d’une littérature Romanesque
Daisy Black, The Bayeux Tapestry: New Yarns

Part IV: Documentation

Clémentine Pasquier-Berthelot, Se repérer dans la Tapisserie de Bayeux: sources, références et méthodes de localisation

Bibliography