IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 510: Gestures Abound: Studies in the Bayeux Tapestry, I
Tuesday 11 July 2006, 09.00-10.30
Organisers: | Ilicia J. Sprey, Department of History, St Joseph's College, Indiana Dan Terkla, Department of English, Illinois Wesleyan University |
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Moderator/Chair: | Ilicia J. Sprey, Department of History, St Joseph's College, Indiana |
Paper 510-a | Object and Gesture on the Bayeux Tapestry (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Decorative Arts |
Paper 510-b | The Bayeux Tapestry: Gesturing towards a History (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities |
Paper 510-c | Double Value: Simultaneous Motion and Immobility in the Bayeux Tapestry (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General |
Abstract | Offered on the 940th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, the papers in these three sessions grew out of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) seminar at Yale University, 'The Bayeux Tapestry and the Anglo-Norman World'. Panelists have built upon the seminar discussions, presentations, and current studies of the Tapestry to formulate fresh questions about, and new approaches to discussing its Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Scandinavian, and Byzantine contexts; its visual syntaxes; mnemonic function; physical production; and its afterlives. In so doing, they have sought to counter the recursive, self-cannibalizing trend that has characterized and stalled studies of this monumental, unique, and exemplary gestural narrative. |