EyewitnessingEyewitnessing evaluates the place and potency of images among other kinds of historical evidence. By reviewing the many varieties of images across region, period, and medium, and by looking at the pragmatic uses of imagesfrom the Bayeux Tapestry to an engraving of a printing press or a reconstruction of a buildingPeter Burke illuminates the damaging consequences of our assumption that these practical uses are reflections of specific historical