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The Bayeux ‘Tapestry’: invisible seams and visible boundaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2003

Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
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The embroidered hanging known as the Bayeux ‘Tapestry’ was an obvious candidate for inclusion in an Anglo-Saxonists' conference titled ‘Imagined Endings, Borders, Reigns, Millennia’. Almost certainly constructed in English workshops for a Norman master, the ‘Tapestry’ illustrates a chronological period that begins with the final years of Edward the Confessor's reign and ends with the closing of the Anglo-Saxon era. The physical termination of the ‘Tapestry’ is missing, but this does not preclude the imagining of it, usually as a scene showing the accession of William the Conqueror to the English throne, a new reign and a new, Norman, era.

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Research Article
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press