Chewing Over the Norman Conquest: The Bayeux Tapestry as Monastic Mealtime Reading’

‘Chewing Over the Norman Conquest: The Bayeux Tapestry as Monastic Mealtime Reading’
Lecture by Prof. Benjamin Pohl at Trinity College Dublin

This event explores the connections between Ireland and Normandy and highlights the importance of material culture in the Norman world. Prof. Benjamin Pohl (University of Bristol) delivers a lecture that places the Bayeux Tapestry in the context of monastic mealtime reading in a refectory. This perspective opens a wider discussion on materiality and connections in the Middle Ages.

The lecture is followed by a research showcase of the NAISC project (Normandy and Ireland Settlement Connections). This project uses original historical research to explore the people and places that connect Ireland and Normandy in the period following the Anglo-Norman invasion of the late 1160s.

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