A needle in the right hand of God : the Norman conquest of 1066 and the making of the Bayeux tapestry/ R. Howard Bloch.
2006
NK3049.B3 B57 2006 (Mapit)
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Title
A needle in the right hand of God : the Norman conquest of 1066 and the making of the Bayeux tapestry/ R. Howard Bloch.
Author
Bloch, R. Howard.
ISBN
9781400065493
1400065496
1400065496
Imprint
New York : Random House, c2006.
Language
English
Description
xv, 230, [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Call Number
NK3049.B3 B57 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification
746.44/204338942
Summary
The Bayeux Tapestry is the worldʾs most famous textile - an exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is also one of historyʾs most mysterious and compelling works of art. This account of the battle that redrew the map of medieval Europe has inspired dreams of theft, waves of nationalism, visions of limitless power, and esthetic rapture. R. Howard Bloch reveals the history, the hidden meaning, the deep beauty, and the enduring allure of this astonishing piece of cloth. Book jacket.
Includes information on Anglo-Saxons, Arabs, Canterbury (England), Charlemagne, coins, Constantinople, Danes, Edward the Confessor, England, English Channel, feudalism, France, Germany, Guy of Amiens, Guy of Ponthieu, Battle of Hastings, Heinrich Himmler, Holy Roman Empire, Knights, medieval manuscripts, Mathilda (queen of England), Michel Francisque, Middle Ages, Mont Saint Michel, Normandy, Normans, Odo of Bayeux, Old French language, Orderic Vitalis, Rome, Scandinavia, Sicily, The Song of Roland, Song of the Battle of Hastings, Battle of Stamford Bridge, Stigand (archbishop of Canterbury), Sutton Hoo treasure, textile arts, Vikings, Westminster Abbey, William of Normandy, William of Poitiers, William the Conqueror, World War II, York, etc.
Includes information on Anglo-Saxons, Arabs, Canterbury (England), Charlemagne, coins, Constantinople, Danes, Edward the Confessor, England, English Channel, feudalism, France, Germany, Guy of Amiens, Guy of Ponthieu, Battle of Hastings, Heinrich Himmler, Holy Roman Empire, Knights, medieval manuscripts, Mathilda (queen of England), Michel Francisque, Middle Ages, Mont Saint Michel, Normandy, Normans, Odo of Bayeux, Old French language, Orderic Vitalis, Rome, Scandinavia, Sicily, The Song of Roland, Song of the Battle of Hastings, Battle of Stamford Bridge, Stigand (archbishop of Canterbury), Sutton Hoo treasure, textile arts, Vikings, Westminster Abbey, William of Normandy, William of Poitiers, William the Conqueror, World War II, York, etc.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-214) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
ch. 1. Lances, axes, and needles
ch. 2. Perils and survival
ch. 3. War by other means
ch. 4. A stitich in time
ch. 5. Buried treasure
ch. 6. Weaving to Byzantium
ch. 7. Go east, young Norman
ch. 8. An asylum of nobles
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index.
ch. 1. Lances, axes, and needles
ch. 2. Perils and survival
ch. 3. War by other means
ch. 4. A stitich in time
ch. 5. Buried treasure
ch. 6. Weaving to Byzantium
ch. 7. Go east, young Norman
ch. 8. An asylum of nobles
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index.