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Decoding the Bayeux Tapestry

Author : Arthur Colin Wright
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526741113
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Decoding the Bayeux Tapestry written by Arthur Colin Wright and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, a scholar reveals the meaning of the marginal images on the Bayeux Tapestry, unlocking a completely new meaning of the work. The story of the Norman Conquest and the Battle of Hastings as shown in the Bayeux Tapestry is arguably the most widely-known in the panoply of English history, and over the last 200 years there have been hundreds of books on the Tapestry seeking to analyze its meanings. Yet, there is one aspect of the embroidery that has been virtually ignored or dismissed as unimportant by historians—the details in the margins. The fables shown in the margins are neither just part of a decorative ribbon, nor are they discontinuous. They follow on in sequence. When this is understood, it becomes clear that they must relate to the action shown on the body of the Tapestry. After careful examination, the purpose of these images is to amplify, elaborate, or explain the main story. In this groundbreaking study, Arthur Wright reveals the significance of the images in the margins. Now it is possible to see the “whole” story as never before, enabling a more complete picture of the Bayeux Tapestry to be constructed. Wright reexamines many of the scenes in the main body of the work, showing that a number of the basic assumptions, so often taught as facts, have been based on nothing more than reasoned conjecture. It might be thought that after so much has been written about the Bayeux Tapestry there was nothing more to be said, but Decoding the Bayeux Tapestry shows how much there is still to be learned.

The Bayeux Tapestry Elucidated

Author : John Collingwood Bruce
Publisher : London, J. R. Smith
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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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:

A Needle in the Right Hand of God

Author : R. Howard Bloch
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307497011
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book A Needle in the Right Hand of God written by R. Howard Bloch and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bayeux Tapestry is the world’s most famous textile–an exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is also one of history’s most mysterious and compelling works of art. This haunting stitched account of the battle that redrew the map of medieval Europe has inspired dreams of theft, waves of nationalism, visions of limitless power, and esthetic rapture. In his fascinating new book, Yale professor R. Howard Bloch reveals the history, the hidden meaning, the deep beauty, and the enduring allure of this astonishing piece of cloth. Bloch opens with a gripping account of the event that inspired the Tapestry: the swift, bloody Battle of Hastings, in which the Norman bastard William defeated the Anglo-Saxon king, Harold, and laid claim to England under his new title, William the Conqueror. But to truly understand the connection between battle and embroidery, one must retrace the web of international intrigue and scandal that climaxed at Hastings. Bloch demonstrates how, with astonishing intimacy and immediacy, the artisans who fashioned this work of textile art brought to life a moment that changed the course of British culture and history. Every age has cherished the Tapestry for different reasons and read new meaning into its enigmatic words and images. French nationalists in the mid-nineteenth century, fired by Tapestry’s evocation of military glory, unearthed the lost French epic “The Song of Roland,” which Norman troops sang as they marched to victory in 1066. As the Nazis tightened their grip on Europe, Hitler sent a team to France to study the Tapestry, decode its Nordic elements, and, at the end of the war, with Paris under siege, bring the precious cloth to Berlin. The richest horde of buried Anglo-Saxon treasure, the matchless beauty of Byzantine silk, Aesop’s strange fable “The Swallow and the Linseed,” the colony that Anglo-Saxon nobles founded in the Middle East following their defeat at Hastings–all are brilliantly woven into Bloch’s riveting narrative. Seamlessly integrating Norman, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, and Byzantine elements, the Bayeux Tapestry ranks with Chartres and the Tower of London as a crowning achievement of medieval Europe. And yet, more than a work of art, the Tapestry served as the suture that bound up the wounds of 1066. Enhanced by a stunning full-color insert that includes reproductions of the complete Tapestry, A Needle in the Right Hand of God will stand with The Professor and the Madman and How the Irish Saved Civilization as a triumph of popular history.

The Book of the Bayeux Tapestry

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Bayeux Tapestry written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bayeux Tapestry

Author : Frank Rede Fowke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Bayeux Tapestry written by Frank Rede Fowke and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry: Unraveling the Norman Conquest

Author : David Musgrove
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 050077658X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry: Unraveling the Norman Conquest written by David Musgrove and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive and fully illustrated guide to the Bayeux Tapestry. The full history of the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings and the story of the tapestry itself. Most people know that the Bayeux Tapestry depicts the moment when the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold Godwinson, was defeated at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 by his Norman adversary William the Conqueror. However, there is much more to this historic treasure than merely illustrating the outcome of this famous battle. Full of intrigue and violence, the tapestry depicts everything from eleventh-century political and social life—including the political machinations on both sides of the English Channel in the years leading up to the Norman Conquest—to the clash of swords and stamp of hooves on the battle field. Drawing on the latest historical and scientific research, authors David Musgrove and Michael Lewis have written the definitive book on the Bayeux Tapestry, taking readers through its narrative, detailing the life of the tapestry in the centuries that followed its creation, explaining how it got its name, and even offering a new possibility that neither Harold nor William were the true intended king of England. Featuring stunning, full- color photographs throughout, The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry explores the complete tale behind this medieval treasure that continues to amaze nearly one thousand years after its creation.

The Bayeux Tapestry

Author : Lucien Musset
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843831631
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (316 download)

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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

Guide to the Bayeux tapestry

Author : Francis Birrell
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Guide to the Bayeux tapestry written by Francis Birrell and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Guide to the Bayeux Tapestry, you will enjoy reading about analyses of the Norman Conquest and its great involvement with the English and French people. The 1066 Norman Conquest of England was led by William, Duke of Normandy challenging Harold II, King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings. Contents: The Scenes Described, History of the Tapestry, cont.

Mystery of the Bayeux Tapestry

Author : David J. Bernstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Mystery of the Bayeux Tapestry written by David J. Bernstein and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bayeux Tapestry

Author : Carola Hicks
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407065882
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Bayeux Tapestry written by Carola Hicks and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-07-31 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vivid scenes on the Bayeux Tapestry depict the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings in 1066. It is one of Europe's greatest treasures and its own story is full of drama and surprise. Who commissioned the tapestry? Was it Bishop Odo, William's ruthless half-brother? Or Harold's dynamic sister Edith, juggling for a place in the new court? Hicks shows us this world and the miracle of the tapestry's making: the stitches, dyes and strange details in the margins. For centuries it lay ignored in Bayeux cathedral until its 'discovery' in the eighteenth century. It became a symbol of power as well as art: townsfolk saved it during the French Revolution; Napoleon displayed it to promote his own conquest; the Nazis strove to make it their own; and its influence endures today. This marvellous book, packed with thrilling stories, shows how we remake history in every age and how a great work of art has a life of its own.

The Book of the Bayeux Tapestry

Author : Hilaire Belloc
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331582673
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Bayeux Tapestry written by Hilaire Belloc and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Book of the Bayeux Tapestry: Presenting the Complete Work in a Series of Colour Facsimiles The object of all this kind of work in every age where it has ﬂourished (and such ages cover nearly the whole of human history) is to establish a record. The motive is lest the deeds of those great men, our fathers, should perish. Now, there are a hundred ways of satisfying that motive more or less. The one that first occurs to us to-day is of course Inscription. But Inscription suffers from two faults: first, it is not universal; secondly, it is jejune. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Bayeux Tapestry

Author : Frank Rede Fowke
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780343908720
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Bayeux Tapestry written by Frank Rede Fowke and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-21 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Bayeux Tapestry

Author : John F. Szabo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442251565
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Bayeux Tapestry written by John F. Szabo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 1780 entries, Szabo and Kuefler offer the largest and most heavily annotated bibliography on the Tapestry ever written.

The Bayeux Tapestry

Author :
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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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.

The Bayeux Tapestry

Author : M. De Sanctis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Bayeux Tapestry written by M. De Sanctis and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bayeux Tapestry Elucidated

Author : John Collingwood Bruce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783337363482
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book The Bayeux Tapestry Elucidated written by John Collingwood Bruce and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bayeux Tapestry

Author : Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367601843
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Bayeux Tapestry written by Gale R. Owen-Crocker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.