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

Sources and further reading

By Finley Cassidy '22

2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving : A Loan Exhibition Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Dec 7, 1951 to Jan 27, 1952 The Baltimore Museum of Art, Feb 27, 1952 to Mar 25, 1952. s.n., 1951. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat06787a&AN=chc.b1014573&site=eds-live&scope=site.

Cormack, Robin. Byzantine Art. Oxford University Press, 2000. https://search-ebscohost-com.holycross.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat06787a&AN=chc.b3337696&site=eds-live&scope=site.

Foreman, Amanda. "The Amazon Women: Is there any truth behind the myth?" In The Smithsonian Magazine. April (2014). https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/amazon-women-there-any-truth-behind-myth-180950188/

Kitzinger, Ernst. Early Medieval Art in the British Museum. Indiana University Press, 1983. https://search-ebscohost-com.holycross.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat06787a&AN=chc.b1455726&site=eds-live&scope=site.

Morris, F. “Catalogue of Textile Fabrics, The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.” Unpublished catalogue, Washington, DC, 1940. Read online

Nees, Lawrence. 2002. Early Medieval Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Thompson, D. “Catalogue of Textiles in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection.” Unpublished catalogue, Dumbarton Oaks Museum Archives, Washington, DC, 1976. Read onlinernst Hoke, and Ingeborg Petrascheck-Heim. “Microprobe Analysis of Gilded Silver Threads from Mediaeval Textiles.” Studies in Conservation 22, no. 2 (May 1, 1977): 49–62. doi:10.2307/1505702.

Artist unknown. Roundel with Amazons on Horseback. Ca. 7-9th century C.E. Weft-faced compound twill (samite) in polychrome silk. H. (warp) 22.4 cm × W. (weft) 18.9 cm (8 13/16 × 7 7/16 in.). Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, purchase Washington D.C. From: The Dumbarton Oaks collection, https://www.doaks.org/resources/textiles/catalogue/BZ.1946.15 (Accessed December 1st 2021)

Artist unknown. Roundel with Amazons and a cross. Ca. 7-9th century C.E.Weft-faced compound twill (samite) in green, beige, and brownish silk. 8 3/16 x 8 1/4in. (20.8 x 20.9cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. From: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, http://www.metmuseum.org (Accessed December 1st 2021)

Artist unknown. Medallion Depicting Addorsed Amazons on Horseback. 6-7th century C.E. Silk; samite (weft-faced compound twill). Textile: H. 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm) W. 7 7/8 in. (20 cm) Mount: H. 12 3/4 in. (32.4 cm) W. 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm) D. 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. From: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, http://www.metmuseum.org (Accessed December 1st 2021) 

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