Medievalists.net » Bayeux Tapestry http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Bayeux Tapestry: Author, Art and Allegory http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/23/the-bayeux-tapestry-author-art-and-allegory/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/23/the-bayeux-tapestry-author-art-and-allegory/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2015 02:24:14 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=57845 The Bayeux Tapestry is a complex visual history of the Norman Conquest of England. Its creation and the story it weaves were defined by its dichotomous authorship, its physical form as textile art and its analogous narrative imagery.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/23/the-bayeux-tapestry-author-art-and-allegory/feed/ 0 The Bayeux Tapestry: The Case of the Phantom Fleet http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/01/bayeux-tapestry-case-phantom-fleet/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/01/bayeux-tapestry-case-phantom-fleet/#comments Mon, 01 Sep 2014 18:31:51 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52256 There is a large bibliography of secondary works concerning the Bayeux Tapestry, but when one reads much of the published material it is clear that a high proportion of this comment, as one would expect, copies and builds on previous authors.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/01/bayeux-tapestry-case-phantom-fleet/feed/ 0 Aelfgyva: The Mysterious Lady of the Bayeux Tapestry http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/24/aelfgyva-mysterious-lady-bayeux-tapestry/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/24/aelfgyva-mysterious-lady-bayeux-tapestry/#comments Sun, 24 Aug 2014 16:56:03 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52097 One of the most intriguing of these puzzles centers upon a scene in that initial segment of the Tapestry treating with Earl Harold Godwinson's famed and controversial visit to the court of the Norman duke

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/24/aelfgyva-mysterious-lady-bayeux-tapestry/feed/ 0 Ten Things You May Not Have Noticed in the Bayeux Tapestry http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/12/ten-things-may-noticed-bayeux-tapestry/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/12/ten-things-may-noticed-bayeux-tapestry/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2014 17:35:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51825 The designer of the Bayeux Tapestry also included little details that might be missed by the casual viewer. Here are ten images to take a second look at!

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/12/ten-things-may-noticed-bayeux-tapestry/feed/ 0 Could Duke Phillip the Good of Burgundy have owned the Bayeux tapestry in 1430? http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/07/duke-phillip-good-burgundy-owned-bayeux-tapestry-1430/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/07/duke-phillip-good-burgundy-owned-bayeux-tapestry-1430/#comments Mon, 07 Jul 2014 12:20:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50954 An entry in the Inventory of the Bayeux cathedral treasury records that in 1476 the church owned the following: Item une tente tres longue et estroicte de telle a broderie d'ymages et escripteaulx, faisans representation du Conquest d'Angleterre, laquelle est tendu environ la nefde l'église le jour et par l'octave des reliques (l). Not until the 1720 's did scholars first find and appreciate the potential importance of this brief entry.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/07/duke-phillip-good-burgundy-owned-bayeux-tapestry-1430/feed/ 0 A Feast for the Eyes: Representing Odo at the Banquet in the Bayeux Embroidery http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/06/feast-eyes-representing-odo-banquet-bayeux-embroidery/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/06/feast-eyes-representing-odo-banquet-bayeux-embroidery/#comments Sun, 06 Jul 2014 17:17:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50896 This paper will therefore investigate Odo’s role in the banquet as a way to ask larger questions about how patronage has been portrayed in the literature on the Bayeux Embroidery as a whole.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/06/feast-eyes-representing-odo-banquet-bayeux-embroidery/feed/ 0 Designer of the Bayeux Tapestry identified http://www.medievalists.net/2013/10/29/designer-of-the-bayeux-tapestry-identified/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/10/29/designer-of-the-bayeux-tapestry-identified/#comments Wed, 30 Oct 2013 04:44:37 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=44555 The Bayeux Tapestry was designed by Scolland, Abbot of St.Augustine's monastery in Canterbury, according to research by Howard Clarke of University College, Dublin.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/28/a-stitch-in-time/feed/ 0 The Garments of Guy in the Bayeux Tapestry http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/24/the-garments-of-guy-in-the-bayeux-tapestry/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/24/the-garments-of-guy-in-the-bayeux-tapestry/#comments Sat, 25 May 2013 01:02:54 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=41330 In her paper, Gale R. Owen-Crocker looks at how the late 11th century frieze portrays Guy, Count of Ponthieu.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/24/the-garments-of-guy-in-the-bayeux-tapestry/feed/ 0 New research on how the Bayeux Tapestry was made http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/15/new-research-on-how-the-bayeux-tapestry-was-made/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/15/new-research-on-how-the-bayeux-tapestry-was-made/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:17:42 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37177 A University of Manchester researcher has thrown new light on how the world famous Bayeux Tapestry was made over 900 years ago.

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