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NEH Summer Seminar/The Bayeux Tapestry and the Making of the Anglo-Norman World/Director R. Howard Bloch/ Yale University
| Location: | Connecticut, United States |
| Summer Program Begins: | 2005-06-27 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2004-11-04 |
| Announcement ID: |
142140 |
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A study of the Bayeux Tapestry, using relevant written primary sources and the Digital Tapestry available on a CD-Rom, as a record of the Norman Conquest and as a key to Anglo-Saxon culture as well as to the High Middle Ages. Topic include historical background and aftermath of the event, architectural representation, images of weaponry and war, the Channel and the sea, everyday life, eating and dress, time, communication and transportation, hunting and agriculture, proper names and inscriptions, relations between secular government, ecclesiastical hierarchy, and the papacy, rituals of death, burial, and coronation, the medieval tradition of manuscript illumination, sculpture, ivory, metalwork, and embroidery, the making of Anglo-Norman culture out of the disparate threads of Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian-Viking, Gallic-Continental and even the Eastern or Mediterranean world. Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT., June 27-August 5, 2005, stipend $4200, information:
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