Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Abbreviations viii
5. Introduction 1
6. A Personal Recollection 9
7. Publications of Gale R. Owen-Crocker (as Gale R. Owen before 1986) 17
8. Part I Textile
9. 1 The Language of Dress and Textiles in Wills of the Old English Period 27
10. 2 Opus What? The Textual History of Medieval Embroidery Terms and Their Relationship to the Surviving Embroideries c. 800–1400 43
11. 3 Intertextuality in the Bayeux Tapestry: The Form and Function of Dress and Clothing 69
12. 4 Birds of a Feather: Magpies in the Bayeux Tapestry? 85
13. 5 Threads and Needles: The Use of Textiles for Medical Purposes 103
14. Part II Text
15. 6 Text, Textile, Context: Aldhelm and Wordweaving as Metaphor 121
16. 7 The Weft of War in the Exeter Book Riddles 139
17. 8 Fyrenne Dracan in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 153
18. 9 Old English in the Margins 171
19. Part III Intertext
20. 10 Weaving Words on the Ruthwell Cross 183
21. 11 Fates of the Apostles and Tituli 199
22. 12 Weaving and Interweaving: The Textual Traditions of Two of Ælfric’s Supplementary Homilies 211
23. 13 Invisible Things in London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. xv 225
24. 14 Redacting Harold Godwinson: The Vita Haroldi and William of Malmesbury 239
25. Index 255
26. Tabula Gratulatoria 265