[MR] "The Bayeux Tapestry: Embroidering the Facts of History"

[SNSpies at aol.com]

I have just removed my brand-new copy of this book from the box it arrived  
in from France and can tell you all immediately that every single paper in the  
book is in English.  Yea!  Lots of pictures, too, as well as an  incredible 
variety of topics.  Here are the papers --
 
Historiography of the Bayeux Tapestry
"The Great Bayeux Tapestry Debate (19th and 20th Centuries)"
"The Bayeux Tapestry: A Critical Analysis of Publications 1988-1999"
"The Bayeux Tapestry under German Occupation"
 
The Artefact as Textile
"Publication of the Results of the Scientific and Technical Study  1982-1983"
"Bayeux Tapestry or Bayeux Embroidery?"  (I'm going to read this  chapter 
first!)
"The Bayeux Tapestry: an Example of Textile Embroidery"
"The Technical Study of the Bayeux Embroidery"
"The Bayeux Embroidery and its Backing Strip"
"The Bayeux Tapestry: Results of the Scientific Tests (1982-1983)"
 
Medieval Sources and Historical Narrative
"Orderic Vitalis and the Bayeux Tapestry"
"The Echo of the Conquest in the Latin Sources: Duchess Mathilda, her  
Daughters and the
    Enigma of the Golden Child"
"The Norman Conquest in the Grande Chronique de Normandie"
"The Bayeux Tapestry as Original Source"
"Is the Bayeux Tapestry Pro-English?"
"The Bayeux Tapestry, the Bishop and the Laity"
 
The Bayeux Tapestry as Documentary Evidence
"The Bayeux Tapestry and its Depiction of Costume: The Problems of  
Interpretation
"Archaeology and the Bayeux Tapestry"
"The Importance of the Bayeux Tapestry for the History of War"
 
The Work of Art
"The Bayeux Tapestry and Decoration in North-Western Europe: Style and  
Composition"
"Trifunctionality and Epic Patterning in the Bayeux Tapestry"
"The Coronation of Harold in the Bayeux Tapestry"
"The Bayeux Tapestry: The Establishment of a Text"
 
It is available from _www.amazon.fr_ (http://www.amazon.fr) ; the  price is 
EUR 35.57 + EUR 10.90 = EUR 46.47.  
Please pass this information along!
 
Nancy
 
 
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Nancy  Spies
Arelate Studio
_www.weavershand.com/ArelateStudio.html_ 
(http://www.weavershand.com/ArelateStudio.html) 
Ingvild  Josefsdatter, OL
Bright Hills, Atlantia

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