BAYEUX TAPESTRY

This so-called tapestry is in fact an embroidery that chronicles the Norman conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066. It is a long, narrow strip of coarse linen, 230 ft by 20 in. (70 m by 51 cm), embroidered in worsteds of eight colors in couching and stem stitch. The embroidery is a valuable document on the history and the costumes of the time. Its provenance and date have long been disputed. Tradition attributes it to Queen Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror, and her handmaidens; but it is now thought to be of somewhat later origin and possibly the work of English embroiderers. The embroidery is preserved in the Bayeux Museum.

See Sir Eric Maclagan, The Bayeux Tapestry (1945); F. Stenton et al., The Bayeux Tapestry (1957, repr. 1965).

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books on: Bayeux Tapestry  - 527 results

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The Loving Subject: Desire, Eloquence, and Power in Romanesque France
Book by Gerald A. Bond; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995
Subjects: Art, Romanesque--France, Bayeux Tapestry--Themes, Motives, France--Civilization--1000-1328, Love In Literature, Personality, Secularism--France
...4. Love in literature. 5. Bayeux tapestry -- Themes, motives. I. Title...clerk and AElfgyva...," from the Bayeux Tapestry ca. 1066-82 ; discussion in...to reproduce images from the Bayeux Tapestry, and to Sebastien Sebal at...
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The Tapestry Book
Book by Helen Churchill Candee; Tudor publishing co., 1935
Subjects: Tapestry
...XXIII THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY 241...234 BAYEUX TAPESTRY. DETAIL 1066 242 BAYEUX TAPESTRY. DETAIL 1066 243...
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French Tapestry
Book by André E. Lejard; Les Editions Du Chene, 1947
Subjects: Tapestry--France
...endlessly repeated. Nor can tapestry be likened to embroidery, although all tapestry is wrought by hand. The so-called "Bayeux tapestry" of Queen Matilda is an instance of such confusion; it is embroidered needlework. Were it real tapestry, the origin...
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Anglo-Norman Studies XXIII: Proceedings of the Battle Conference, 2000
Book by John Gillingham; Boydell Press, 2001
Subjects: Great Britain--History--Norman Period, 1066-1154--Congresses, Normandy (France)--History--Congresses, Normans--England--Congresses
...English castle keeps, the Bayeux Tapestry and the New Forest are shown...Senecal The Language of the Bayeux Tapestry Inscription 267 Ian Short...England 255 The Language of the Bayeux Tapestry Inscription Plate I Bayeux...
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The Saxon & Norman Kings
Book by Christopher Brooke; B.T. Batsford, 1963
Subjects: Great Britain--History--Anglo Saxon Period, 449-1066, Great Britain--History--Norman Period, 1066-1154, Great Britain--Kings And Rulers
...Stigand the archbishop" From the Bayeux Tapestry THE SAXON NORMAN KINGS...Wessex see page 216 and the Bayeux Tapestry draws heavily on his suggestions...reproduce photographs from The Bayeux Tapestry , edited by Sir Frank Stenton...
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journal articles on: Bayeux Tapestry  - 28 results

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The Study of the Bayeux Tapestry
Journal article by Christopher Cannon; Medium Aevum, Vol. 67, 1998
Subjects: Books--Reviews, The Study of the Bayeux Tapestry. (Book)--Reviews
The Study of the Bayeux Tapestry by CHRISTOPHER CANNON The Study of the Bayeux Tapestry, ed. Richard Gameson (Cambridge...eleven `classic studies of the Bayeux Tapestry written between 1821 and 1994...
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Reconstructing Medieval Pictorial Narrative: Louis Joubert's Tapestry Restoration Project
Journal article by Laura Weigert; Art Journal, Vol. 54, 1995
Subjects: Art history, Joubert, Louis, Middle Ages, Renovation & restoration, Textiles
...tapestries. 13. A classic example of such reversal is Edward the Confessors burial, which precedes his death in the Bayeux tapestry. 14. The titulus reads, "Com...et le fait batre descorgees tout...entes. 15. "Jen ai numerote les diverses parties...
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Norman's Conquest: A Commentary on the Podhoretz Legacy
Journal article by Mark Gerson; Policy Review, 1995
Subjects: Commentary (Periodical)--History, Conservatism--Appreciation, Podhoretz, Norman--Appreciation
...conqueror of 1066, left behind the glorious Bayeux Tapestry detailing the story of his invasion...wars and countless smaller ones, the tapestry remains with us. Norman Podhoretz has left us not a tapestry, but 412 issues of Commentary, which...
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One Friend's Journey
Journal article by Michael P. Graves; Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Vol. 7, 2004
Subjects: Barclay, Robert, Christianity, Epistemology, Fox, George, Knowledge, Religious organizations, Rhetoric, Society of Friends--Quakers
...magnificent twelfth-century Bayeux Tapestry of Normandy, France. One of...published a major article on the Bayeux Tapestry several years back and actually...the student, the one with the Bayeux Tapestry article, the only issue in the...
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Afterword
Journal article by Philip Terry; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 19, 1999
Subjects: Art and literature--Personal narratives, Authors--Attitudes, Duchamp, Marcel--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Book of Bachelors (Book)--Analysis
...after Pierre Bonnard; A.S. Byatts The Matisse Stories (1993); and Peter Bensons exploration of the making of the Bayeux Tapestry, Odos Hanging (1993). Even confining oneself to these few examples of fictional practice, a fundamental division...
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Whose Tapestry Is It Anyway? Andrew Bridgeford Argues That We Have Failed to Appreciate the Ingenuity and Complexity of the Story Depicted by the Bayeux Tapestry
Magazine article by Andrew Bridgeford; History Today, Vol. 54, April 2004
Subjects: Middle ages--History, Norman Conquest, 1066--History, Tapestry--Analysis
...of the Story Depicted by the Bayeux Tapestry. by Andrew Bridgeford THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY is at once one of the most extraordinary...70 metres of embroidery the Bayeux Tapestry recounts the downfall of King...
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How to Embroider History
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 43, October 1993
Subjects: Bayeux tapestry--Exhibitions, Embroidery--Exhibitions
...the eye with the arrow, as the Bayeux Tapestry goes on display in the newly...Museum. Well, not the original Bayeux Tapestry. That remains in Bayeux (and...upstairs rooms. The original Bayeux Tapestry, a vigorous strip cartoon of...
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Normandy: 1066, 1944, and 2004
Magazine article by Richard Mullen; Contemporary Review, Vol. 284, June 2004
Subjects: Battles--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Normandy Invasion, 1944--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Normandy--History
...that ill-fated marriage. The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the most fascinating...re-issued their splendid volume The Bayeux Tapestry with a cogent introduction and...1066:The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry (Fourth Estate, 354 pages, ISBN...
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Round and About: February 2006
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 56, February 2006
...largest community textile projects and was created by 4,000 people in fifteen countries. It has been compared to the Bayeux Tapestry. A Masterpiece Reconstructed: The Hours of Louis XII February 2nd to May 1st Victoria Albert Museum 126 Bedford...
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"BD Reporters": Centre Pompidou
Magazine article by Miriam Rosen; Artforum International, Vol. 45, Summer 2007
Subjects: Artists, French--Criticism and interpretation, Artists, French--Works, Drawing--Exhibitions, French artists--Criticism and interpretation, French artists--Works
...purposes, a sequential drawing) is held to be nothing less than the Ninth Art, with a noble genealogy going back to the Bayeux tapestry, plus a contemporary network of theorists, critics, publishers, festivals, websites, and art-school programs. Not...
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1066 and All That Hard Work; Mother's 20-Year Labour of Love to Recreate the Bayeux Tapestry
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 30, 2006
Subjects: Bayeux Tapestry (Textile art)
...Labour of Love to Recreate the Bayeux Tapestry. WALTER and Pauline Sainsbury...suggested she make a replica of the Bayeux Tapestry, the 230ft long embroidered...Then her father suggested the Bayeux Tapestry recreation. With treatment...
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A Stroll Round 1066 and All That ... DATE WITH DESTINY: Bayeux Tapestry Battle Scene TURF WAR: The Battlefield at Battle, with a Sign Explaining Details of the Historic Action
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), December 14, 2008
A Stroll Round 1066 and All That ... DATE WITH DESTINY: Bayeux Tapestry Battle Scene TURF WAR: The Battlefield at Battle, with a Sign Explaining Details of the Historic Action. Byline: John Nichol...
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Weaving a Whole New Story from an Old Tapestry
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 10, 2005
...The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry," is primarily a discussion...half-million visitors a year come to Bayeux in Normandy to see the tapestry, which is half a meter wide...THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY By Andrew Bridgeford Walker...
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View 11th-Century Tapestry When Visiting Normandy Region of France
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 27, 2000
Subjects: Normandy
...the world-famous Bayeux Tapestry in the town of the same name. Bayeux is in the Normandy...and D-Day. The tapestry, a unique masterpiece...was said that the tapestry was used to decorate...the Cathedral of Bayeux. The embroidery...
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A Quick Flight to Normandys Rich Tapestry; CENTRE OF ATTRACTION: Michael and Sheila Bryant, Pictured with Their Family, Live in the Heart of Honfleur - NORMAN CONQUEST: Britons Have Settled in Their Thousands in Northern France, Lured by Honfleur, Left, and Deauville
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 2, 2007
Subjects: Real estate industry
...France, Lured by Honfleur, Left, and Deauville. Byline: Richard Holledge No wonder they all look so glum on the Bayeux tapestry. Theres not asmile to be seen on the mediaeval embroidery which depicts William theConquerors invasion of England...
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Bayeux Tapestry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BAYEUX TAPESTRY This so-called tapestry is in fact an embroidery...in the Bayeux Museum. See Sir Eric Maclagan, The Bayeux Tapestry (1945); F. Stenton et al., The Bayeux Tapestry (1957, repr. 1965). ____________________ Copyright...
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Bayeux
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...for the most part in the 13th cent. The town is particularly famous for its museum containing the Bayeux tapestry . In World War II, Bayeux was the first French city liberated by the Allies (June 8, 1944). ____________________ Copyright...
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Tapestry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in Europe. A few fragments woven in this material in the 10th or 11th cent. are still preserved. (The so-called Bayeux tapestry was actually embroidered.) At Arras, early in the 14th cent., the first great French weaving was done, in wool...
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Taillefer
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TAILLEFER ti fer , fl. 1066, Norman warrior and trouvere. According to medieval chronicles and evidence in the Bayeux Tapestry, he led the Norman army at Hastings into battle, singing of Roland at Roncesvalles; he was killed in the conflict...
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Embroidery
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Decorative objects, such as shells, feathers, beads, and jewels, are often sewn to the embroidered piece. The Bayeux tapestry is among the most famous examples of embroidery. The art probably antedates that of weaving. Needlework is mentioned...
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