Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vi

List of Contributors viii

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: Fifty Years of (Re)Producing the Bayeux Tapestry xii

Problematizing Patronage: Odo of Bayeux and the Bayeux Tapestry Elizabeth Carson Pastan Stephen D. White 1

Auctoritas, Consilium et Auxilium: Images of Authority in the Bayeux Tapestry Shirley Ann Brown 25

Taking Place: Reliquaries and Territorial Authority in the Bayeux Embroidery Karen Eileen Overbey 36

On the Nature of Things in the Bayeux Tapestry and its World Valerie Allen 51

Making Sounds Visible in the Bayeux Tapestry Richard Brilliant 71

Anglo-Saxon Women, Norman Knights and a 'Third Sex' in the Bayeux Embroidery Madeline H. Caviness 85

Behind the Bayeux Tapestry Gale R. Owen-Crocker 119

Embroidery Errors in the Bayeux Tapestry and their Relevance for Understanding its Design and Production Michael John Lewis 130

From Hastingus to Hastings and Beyond: Inexorable Inevitability on the Bayeux Tapestry Dan Terkla 141

Pulling the Arrow Out: The Legend of Harold's Death and the Bayeux Tapestry Martin K. Foys 158

The Bayeux Tapestry: A Selective Bibliography Dan Terkla 176

Index 211