Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece

Sources and further reading

By Christopher Smith '22



“A Tang Silk Brocade (Article) | China.” Khan Academy. Khan Academy. Accessed November 8, 2021. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-asia/imperial-china/tang-dynasty/a/a-tang-silk-brocade. 

Ball, Jennifer, and Thelma Thomas. 2019. “‘Hero and Lion’ Silk.” Dumbarton Oaks. https://www.doaks.org/resources/textiles/catalogue/BZ.1934.1. 

Granger-Taylor, Hero, and Lisa Monnas. 1989.  Ancient and Medieval Textiles : Studies in Honour of Donald King. Textile History. Pasold Research Fund.

Lee, John. 2018. “Working in the Middle Ages: The Medieval Clothier.” Medievalists.net. https://www.medievalists.net/2018/09/working-in-the-middle-ages-the-medieval-clothier/. 

“Leon Nemeios.” NEMEAN LION (Leon Nemeios) - Labour of Heracles in Greek Mythology. Theoi Project. https://www.theoi.com/Ther/LeonNemeios.html.

Robert. “Symbols.” The Painters Keys, May 26, 2017. https://painterskeys.com/symbols-2/. 

Roman, Oren. 2018. “A Man Fighting a Lion: A Christian ’Theme’ in Yiddish Epics”. Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures, no. 5 (December):90-110. https://doi.org/10.13130/interfaces-05-08. 

“The Eastern Mediterranean, 500–1000 A.D.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. October 2001. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/?period=06&region=wae.

Victoria and Albert Museum, Digital Media webmaster@vam.ac.uk. Plant motifs in Islamic art. Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2RL. January 31, 2013. http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/p/plant-motifs-in-islamic-art/. 

Wecker, Menachem. “10 Beginner's Tips for How to See-and Understand-the Rich Complexities of Byzantine Textiles.” Artnet News. Artnet News, February 12, 2020. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/byzantine-textiles-1771263. 

Zhao, F. 2010. “Woven Color in China/The Five Colors in Chinese Culture and Polychrome Woven Textiles,” in Textiles and Settlement: From Plains Space to Cyber Space; Proceedings of the 12th Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America, Lincoln, Nebraska. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1063&context=tsaconf.
 

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