Philological Inquiries 1: Method and Merovingians
Philological Inquiries 1: Method and Merovingians Drout, Michael D.C., The Heroic Age, Issue 12 (May 2009) Abstract This is the first of a…
The Bayeux Tapestry: Embroidering the Facts of History
The Bayeux Tapestry: Embroidering the Facts of History Edited by Pierre Bouet, Brian Levy and François Neveux Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2004 ISBN: 2841332136…
Was the Bayeux Tapestry Made in France?: The Case for St. Florent of Saumur
Was the Bayeux Tapestry Made in France?: The Case for St. Florent of Saumur By George Beech Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 ISBN: 1403966702 This…
The Bayeux Tapestry: The Life Story of a Masterpiece
The Bayeux Tapestry: The Life Story of a Masterpiece By Carola Hicks Random House (Chatto & Windus), 2006 ISBN: 9780701174637 The vivid scenes…
A Needle in the Right Hand of God : the Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry
A Needle in the Right Hand of God : the Norman conquest of 1066 and the making and meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry…
The political artistry of the Bayeux tapestry: a visual epic of Norman imperial ambitions
The political artistry of the Bayeux tapestry: a visual epic of Norman imperial ambitions By John Michael Crafton Edwin Mellen Press, 2007 ISBN:…
Burning Down the House: Scorched Earth Tactics Suggested by Wace and Bayeux Tapestry
Burning Down the House: Scorched Earth Tactics Suggested by Wace and Bayeux Tapestry By Collin Davey and Monica L. Wright McNair Research Review, Vol.4…
The Bayeux Tapestry and the Vitae of Edward the Confessor in Dialogue
One of the mysteries of The Bayeux Tapestry is its bias: was this depiction of the events of 1066 meant to be from the point of view of the conqueror or the conquered?
Sacred Threads: The Bayeux Tapestry as a Religious Object
There is a duality to the Bayeux Tapestry. The first half is seemingly sympathetic towards Harold Godwin (c.1022-1066), with the second part strikingly pro-Norman. There is a double narrative, one running through the frieze itself and another among the animals and creatures in the borders. We see clerics and knights, churches and palaces, with the sacred blending in with the secular.
Hypertext, Hypermedia and the Bayeux Tapestry: A Study of Remediation
Hypertext, Hypermedia and the Bayeux Tapestry: A Study of Remediation By John Micheal Crafton Peregrinations: International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art,…
Stylistic Variation and Roman Influence in the Bayeux Tapestry
There are a number of places in the Tapestry where the graphics of the main register are different in both subject matter and style. The men pictured at these points are workers, engaged in practical, mundane (distinctly non-heroic) tasks.
The Bayeux Tapestry and the Vikings
How did the Bayeux Tapestry, with its images of Normans and Englishmen, come to be so strongly equated with the legendary Vikings in the popular imagination?
Contemporary Views of Edward III’s failure at the Siege of Tournai
All military historical logic indicates that Edward III should not have been defeated at the siege of Tournai in 1340. He had superior numbers, many local allies, good supplies, a relief army unwilling to come to battle with him, and a town on the verge of hopeless starvation.
God, leadership, Flemings and Archery: Contemporary Perspectives of Victory and Defeat at the Battle of Sluys 1340
However, one thing cannot be agreed on. What was the cause of the victory and defeat at the battle of Sluys?
From Bogeyman to Noble King: Sigismund and Hungary in French Medieval Literature
The main topic of our research lays primarily with the Roman de messire Charles de Hongrie, a romance written towards the end of the XVth century
Wars and Warriors in Gregory of Tours’ Histories I-IV
Although wars do not dominate the Histories, enough are described to cause surprise at the relatively scant attention given to Gregory’s ideology of war in the scholarly literature, an unfortunate lacuna given the resulting insights into both ideological and institutional realities of late sixth-century Gaul.
A Family Conflict Set in Stone: The story of Henry, eldest son of Henry II of England
A Family Conflict Set in Stone: The story of Henry, eldest son of Henry II of England By Janet Gillepsie Medieval History Magazine,…
Magnificent entrances and undignified exits: chronicling the symbolism of castle space in Normandy
Magnificent entrances and undignified exits: chronicling the symbolism of castle space in Normandy By Leonie V. Hicks Journal of Medieval History, Vol. 35:1…
The Saxon Statement: Code in the Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry is thus often largely take at face value, and no serious attemtp seems to have been made to look beyond the work’s representation of the Norman point of view to the possibility that the Saxons who designed and stitched it might have employed covert devices in order to reveal occurences closer to the truth, which the Designer sought to articulare even the some of the facts were suppressed by the Norman conquerors.
The Battlefield Taunt: Violence and Humor in the Chansons de Geste
The Battlefield Taunt: Violence and Humor in the Chansons de Geste By Gerald Herman Annuale mediaevale, Vol. 13 (1972) Synopsis: Examines verbal exchanges and…
Reims Cathedral
Reims Cathedral By Douglas Darracott Art in Context: 2006–2007 Professional Development Workshop Materials (2006) The articles in this series are intended to provide…
What is Anglo-Norman?
What is Anglo-Norman? By Ruth J. Dean Annuale Medievale 6 (1965) Introduction: My purpose in asking this question is to examine the contexts…