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The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations

Foys was the central and organizing editor on The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations. In addition to contributing his own essay (Pulling the Arrow Out,” pp. 158-75) to the volume, he worked closely with his co-editors Terkla and Overbey to approach the individual contributors and assemble the collected essays. It then was his responsibility to draft the initial proposal to Boydell and Brewer, and subsequently be the main point of contact with the publisher, once they had a contract. Foys was also responsible for arranging all of the image permissions, and image edited and arranged the sizeable portions of the Bayeux Tapestry reproduced in color plates within, as well as the color reproductions of the rarer early eighteenth- and nineteenth-century reproductions of the textile (plates 1-35)). All three editors shared responsibility of reading the drafts of the contributors (including each others) and offering reports for revision, before the volume was then sent to an external reader. Co-editors Overbey and Terkla handled the copy-editing and citation checking, respectively, while Foys was responsible for editing all the plate and image references for each essay. Foys also composed the introduction to the volume (pp. xii-xvi), and designed the image used on the jacket cover. The publication of the New Interpretations volume continues a long scholarly association with the Bayeux Tapestry, which began with the Bayeux Tapestry Digital Edition (2003), and continues today. Additionally, the challenge of commissioning, collecting and editing a volume of essays was a new one for Foys, and one that provided significant experience in working collaboratively with colleagues, negotiating diverse needs of diverse contributors, and building relationships with academic publishers.