[MR] summer seminar on the Bayeux Embroidery

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>NEH  Summer Seminar for College Teachers--"The Bayeux Tapestry and  the
>Making of the Anglo-Norman World"
>R. Howard Bloch,  Director
>
>A study of the Bayeux Tapestry, using relevant written  primary sources
>and the Digital Tapestry available on a CD-Rom, as a  record of the
>Norman Conquest and as a key to Anglo-Saxon culture as  well as to the
>High Middle Ages.  Topic include historical  background and aftermath of
>the event, architectural representation,  images of weaponry and war, the
>Channel and the sea, everyday life,  eating and dress, time,
>communication and transportation, hunting and  agriculture, proper names
>and inscriptions, relations between secular  government, ecclesiastical
>hierarchy, and the papacy, rituals of death,  burial, and coronation, the
>medieval tradition of manuscript  illumination, sculpture, ivory,
>metalwork, and embroidery, the making  of Anglo-Norman culture out of the
>disparate threads of Anglo-Saxon,  Scandinavian-Viking,
>Gallic-Continental and even the Eastern or  Mediterranean world.
>
>Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT.  , June
>27-August 5, 2005, for information: howard.bloch at yale.edu  (310)440 6900,
>x1246.