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Title:

King Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry / edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker.

Publisher:

Boydell Press,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

ix, 202 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Harold,--King of England,--1022?-1066.
Harold,--King of England,--1022?-1066--In art.
Bayeux tapestry--Themes, motives.
Anglo-Saxons--Kings and rulers.--Biography.
Hastings, Battle of, England, 1066, in art.
Hastings, Battle of, England, 1066.
Great Britain--History--Edward, the Confessor, 1042-1066.
Great Britain--History--William I, 1066-1087.
Great Britain--Kings and rulers.--Biography.

Other Authors:

Owen-Crocker, Gale R.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

King Harold II and the Bayeux tapestry: a critical introduction / H.E.J. Cowdrey -- Pt. 1. King Harold II. Harold Godwinesson: the construction of kingship / N.J. Higham -- Harold II: a throne-worthy king / Ian Howard -- The myth of Harold II's survival in the Scandinavian sources / Gillian Fellows-Jensen -- The content and construction of the Vita Haroldi / Stephen Matthews -- Pt. 2. The Bayeux tapestry. Body language: a graphic commentary by the horses of the Bayeux tapestry / Sarah Larratt Keefer -- Brothers, rivals and the geometry of the Bayeux tapestry / Gale R. Owen-Crocker -- Putting the Bayeux tapestry in its place / Chris Henige -- Gendering the battle? Male and female in the Bayeux tapestry / Catherine E. Karkov -- Cognate imagery: the bear, Harold, and the Bayeux tapestry / Shirley Ann Brown -- The Cicero-Aratea and the Bayeux tapestry / Cyril Hart -- The Bayeux tapestry and eleventh-century material culture / Michael Lewis.

Series:

Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, 1478-6710 ; v. 3

ISBN:

9781843831242 (hardback : alk. paper)
1843831244 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56617291

LCCN:

2004022191

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)