The Bayeux Tapestry and Its Contexts: A Reassessment

by Kate Gilbert, Stephen D. White, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, et al.

A full and provocative reappraisal of the Bayeux Tapestry, its origins, design and patronage.

Aspects of the Bayeux Tapestry (in fact an embroidered hanging) have always remained mysterious, despite much scholarly investigation, not least its design and patron. Here, in the first full-length interdisciplinary approach to the subject, the authors (an art historian and a historian) consider these and other issues. Rejecting the prevalent view...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843839415
• ISBN13: 9781843839415
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 2.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.9" x 9.7"