[Sca-cooks] Fwd: AN 11/4 NEH Summer Seminar/Bayeux Tapestry

[Sandra Kisner]

>Date:         Thu, 4 Nov 2004 16:36:28 -0500
>From: Arthurnet <jshoaf at ufl.edu>
>Subject:      AN 11/4 NEH Summer Seminar/Bayeux Tapestry
>To: ARTHURNET at MORGAN.UCS.MUN.CA
>
>  Dear Listserv Owner,
>
>NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers--"The Bayeux Tapestry and the
>Making of the Anglo-Norman World"
>R. Howard Bloch, Director
>
>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, for information: howard.bloch at yale.edu (310)440 6900,
>x1246.