Articles

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Speaking the Map: Teaching with the Hereford Map, Geotema: Organo Ufficiale dell' Associazione Geografi Italiani (2007)

Historians of cartography long have suggested that the Hereford Mappa Mundi was created as a...

 

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The Original Placement of the Hereford Mappa Mundi, Imago Mundi (2004)

Although antiquarians, historians of cartography, palaeographers and art historians have written about the Hereford mappa...

 

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Review: The Rhetoric of Power in the Bayeux Tapestry, by Suzanne Lewis, The Medieval Review (1999)

In the preface to her study of the much-discussed Bayeux Tapestry, Suzanne Lewis, professor of...

 

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"I'm gonna git Medieval on your ass": Pulp Fiction for the 90s--the 1190s (with Thomas L. Reed, Jr.), Studies in Popular Culture (1997)

Rarely does contemporary film offer any zippy ephemera to grace the office doors of medievalists,...

 

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The Revolution is Being Televised: Pedagogy and Information Retrieval in the Liberal Arts College (with Steve McKinzie), College & Undergraduate Libraries (1997)

In this period of rapid and ongoing technological change, teaching undergraduates sophisticated research skills demands...

 

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Cut on the Norman Bias: Fabulous Borders and Visual Glosses on the Bayeax Tapestry, Word and Image (1995)
 

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A Basochien Proto-Drama and its Mariological Context: L' Adovocacie Nostre-Dame, Medieval Perspectives (1991)

This essay, which is excerpted from a longer initial study of L’Advocacie Nostre Dame, is...

 

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Byron's Underground Manfred, The Comparatist (1990)
 

Books

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New Research on the Bayeux Tapestry: The Proceedings of a Conference at the British Museum (with Michael J. Lewis and Gale R. Owen-Crocker) (2010)

From Amazon: The Bayeux Tapestry, perhaps the most famous, yet enigmatic, of medieval artworks, was...

 

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The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations (with Martin K. Foys and Karen Eileen Overbey) (2009)

From Amazon: In the past two decades, scholarly assessment of the Bayeux Tapestry has moved...

 

Contributions to Books

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Informal Catechesis and the Hereford Mappa Mundi, The Art, Science, and Technology of Medieval Travel (2008)
 

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Various, The Oxford Companion to World Exploration (2007)

Selections by the author: Marco Polo, 165-167; William of Rubruck, 357; Ludovico de Varthema, 322-324.

 

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Impassioned Failure: Metaphor, Memory and the Drive toward Intellection, Imagining Heaven in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays (2000)
 

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Various, Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encylopedia (2000)

Selections by the author: Martin Behaim, 55-56; lignum aloes, 342-343; Psalter Map, 505-506.

 

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Divina Commedia(The Divine Comedy), Epics for Students : Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Epics (1997)