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Section: Prof. Brown's Publications


Detail from the Bayeux Tapestry showing Bishop Odo of Bayeux in battle.


Medieval Publications

Shirley Ann Brown, updated April 2007

Books:

Christ in Celtic Christianity, Britain and Ireland, 5th to 10th Century. (Studies in Celtic History v.20). Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2002. Co-authored with Michael W. Herren.

The Bayeux Tapestry: A History and Bibliography. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1988.

Articles:

"Cognate Imagery: The Bear, Harold and the Bayeux Tapestry", in King Harold II and The Bayeux Tapestry. Edited by Gale Owen-Crocker. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2005. Pp.149-60.

"La Broderie de Bayeux: analyse critique d'oeuvres publiées 1988-1999/ The Bayeux Tapestry: A Critical Analysis of Publications 1989-1999", in L'Art de broder l'Histoire: La Tapisserie de Bayeux/ The Bayeux Tapestry: Embroidering the Facts of History. Edited by Brian J.Levy and François Neveu. Caen: Presses de l'Université de Caen, 2004. Pp.27-48.

"Recherches sur la Broderie de Bayeux: Bibliographie 1985-1999/ Bibliography of Bayeux Tapestry Studies: 1985-1999", in L'Art de broder l'Histoire: La Tapisserie de Bayeux/ The Bayeux Tapestry: Embroidering the Facts of History. Edited by Brian J.Levy and François Neveu. Caen: Presses de l'Université de Caen, 2004. Pp.411-18.

"Neo-Pelagianism, Early Insular Religious Art, and the Image of Christ", Pattern and Purpose in Insular Art, Proceedings of the Fourth InternationalConference on Insular Art. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2001. Co-authored with Michael W.Herren. Pp.61-71.

"Prolepsis in the Bayeux Tapestry", in Le Futur dans le Moyen Âge Anglais, (Actes du Colloque de l'A.M.A.E.S., Nîmes, mars 1999). Paris: Publications de l'Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, vol.23, 1999. Pp.21-53.

"The Adelae Comitissae of Baudri of Bourgueil and the Bayeux Tapestry", Anglo-Norman Studies XVI. Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1993, Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1994. Co-authored with Michael W.Herren. Pp.55-73. Reprinted in The Study of the Bayeux Tapestry. Edited by R.Gameson. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1997. Pp.139-55.

"The Ringed Crosses of the Celts", Rotunda, vol.25, no.1 (Summer 1992), 29-35.

"The Bayeux Tapestry: Why Eustace, Odo and William?", Anglo-Norman Studies XII. Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1989, Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1990. Pp.7-28.

"The Bayeux Tapestry: History or Propaganda?", in The Anglo-Saxons, Synthesis and Achievement. Edited by J.D.Woods and David A.E.Pelteret. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1985. Pp.11-25.

"The Bayeux Tapestry and the 'Song of Roland'", Olifant, vol.6, nos.3&4 (Spring & Summer 1979) 339-350.

Reviews:

"Was the Bayeux Tapestry made in France? The Case for St. Florent of Saumur by George Beech (New York, 2005)", H-France Review, vol.6 (Nov.2006) no.142. [http://h-france.net/vol6reviews/brown11.html]

"The Role of Art in the Late Anglo-Saxon Church by Richard Gameson (Oxford, 1995)", American Historical Review, (April 1997), 433.

"The Archaeology of Early Medieval Ireland by Nancy Edwards (London, 1991)", Speculum, vol.68, no.3 (July 1993), 753-755.

"The Bayeux Tapestry by David M.Wilson (London, 1985)", RACAR, (Spring 1988), 72-74.


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