Resources

For more information, see the rich multi-authored volume accompanying the exhibition:

Luyster, Amanda, ed. Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece.  London: Harvey Miller, 2023.

Click here to buy the catalogue in hardcover

Contributors include Michael Wood (OBE), Andrea Achi, Paroma Chatterjee, Meredith Fluke, Eurydice Georganteli, Sean Gilsdorf, Sarah Guerin, Cynthia Hahn, Eva R. Hoffman, Richard A. Leson, A. L. McClanan, Nina Masin-Moyer ’22, Grace P. Morrissey ’22, Suleiman Mourad, David Nicolle, Scott Redford, Euan Roger, Alicia Walker, Elizabeth Dospel Williams.

In the News

Byzantium & Friends (podcast): “How to organize a museum exhibition — and Bring the Holy Land Home”

in the London newspaper the Independent, “Revealed: London’s long-lost medieval palace recreated after 500 years” 

Gone Medieval (podcast): “The Crusades and the Chertsey Tiles”

“This new exhibition is extremely cool”

‘A Complicated Narrative’: Faculty-Student Research on Crusades to Debut at Cantor

“A restored medieval depiction of the Crusades shows how England embraced Islamic culture“

Scholarly Articles

Amanda Luyster, “Fragmented Tile, Fragmented Text: Richard the Lionheart on Crusade and the Lost Latin Texts of the Chertsey Combat Tiles (c.1250).” Digital Philology, vol. 11.1, 2022: 86-120.

Janis Desmarais. (2022). A Digital Reconstruction of Tiles from Chertsey Abbey. Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook.

Videos

September 21, 2022; Introductory Lecture

Chertsey

A digital reconstruction of Chertsey Abbey by James Cumper
In 2018 Chertsey Museum commissioned designer James Cumper to create
a 3D computer model of the abbey as it would have looked in 1362. To
accompany this, additional resources were created, including this
timeline. This project was made possible due to the support of Surrey
County Councilor Mark Nuti, Neil Taylor & Paul Blake of World Cargo
Logistics Ltd. & The Friends of Chertsey Museum.
In this video Dr Euan Roger from The National Archives explores the history of Chertsey Abbey. Produced by Royal Holloway, University of London, with and for Chertsey Museum.
In this video Dr Euan Roger from The National Archives explores the history of Chertsey Abbey. Produced by Royal Holloway, University of London, with and for Chertsey Museum

Objects

Courtesy of the 2 Byzantinists, Evan Freeman & Anne McClanan
“Hero and Lion” Silk by Chris Smith ’22
Carolingian Brooch/Amulet by Nina Masin-Moyer ’22
Roundel with Amazons on Horseback by Finley Cassidy ’22
Enkolpion Reliquary Cross by Nina Masin-Moyer ’22
So-Called Crusader’s Bowl by Gracyn Benck ’23
Spandrel with a Griffin in a Roundel by Reuben Reyes ’22
Bowl with Seated Figure (WAM 1918.18) by Grace Morrissey ’22
Bowl with Birds and Animals by Mary Powell ’24
Morgan Crusader Bible Folio 23v by Augusta Holyfield ’22
Morgan Crusader Bible Folio 13r by Emma VanSeveren ’23
Pyxis Depicting Standing Saints and the Entry into Jerusalem by Paige Naumnik ’22
Priest Holding a Reliquary by Brooke Hendershott ’23
The Virgin and Child by Grace Acquilano ’22
Samson and Lion Aquamanile by Nina Masin-Moyer ’22
Seal of Amalric, king of Jerusalem by Omar Afifi ’24
Isolde in the boat to Brittany, Tristan series tile by Mo Amin ’23
Textile Fragment from the Reliquary of St. Librada by Cecilia Baillon ’24
Seal of Latin Emperor Henry of Flanders by Alexandra Berardelli ’25
Sword Pommel with the Arms of Pierre de Dreux by Liam Foley ’23
Miter from the Abbey Church of the Benedictine Monastery of Saint Peter, Salzburg, Austria by Elizabeth Griffith ’24
Fragmentary Bowl with Pseudo-Arabic inscription by Abigail Koczko ’24
Pen Box by Gabriella Moscardelli ’24
Bowl with Harpy on the Interior by Grace Toshach ’23
Dinar of Saladin by John Fashek ’23
Relief of Addorsed Ducks by Jayme Anastasi ’23
The Sacrifice of Isaac by Anne le Gassick ’24

Bringing the Holy Land Home Symposium

Bringing the Holy Land Home Symposium: Welcome and Introduction (1 of 5)
Bringing the Holy Land Home Symposium: Chertsey Abbey and England (2 of 5)
Bringing the Holy Land Home Symposium: Sites (3 of 5)
Bringing the Holy Land Home Symposium: Objects (4 of 5)
Bringing the Holy Land Home Symposium: Crusades, Then and Now (5 of 5)