Table of Contents

Introduction: Making sense of the Bayeux Tapestry - Anna C. Henderson
PART I: Readings: deciphering the visual evidence
Introduction
1. The front tells the story, the back tells the history: a technical discussion of the embroidering of the Bayeux Tapestry - Alexandra Lester-Makin
2. Colour and imagination in the Bayeux Tapestry - Gale R. Owen-Crocker
3. Figuring out nakedness in the borders of the Bayeux Tapestry - Christopher J. Monk
4. Ecclesiastics in the Bayeux Tapestry - Michael J. Lewis
5. Locating Hastings in 1066: the evidence from the Tapestry - Maggie Kneen
PART II: Reworkings: the Bayeux Tapestry's afterlife
Introduction
6. Item, une tente très-longue: the inventory of Bayeux Cathedral and its implications for that textile - Elizabeth Carson Pastan
7. A facsimile for everybody: from Foucault to Foys and beyond - Shirley Ann Brown
8. Through Victorian eyes: re-assessing Elizabeth Wardle's replica - Anna C. Henderson
9. Relating history in needlework in the manner of the Bayeux Tapestry: the embroideries of Normandy - Sylvette Lemagnen
Afterword - Gale R. Owen Crocker
Index

About the Author

Anna Henderson is a PhD student at the University of Manchester and was formerly Editor of the Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies series

Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita, formerly Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture, and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies at the University of Manchester