Publications
Anglo-Norman Studies XXXIV: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2011, edited by David Bates, published 19 July 2012 (Boydell Press, ISBN-13: 9781843837350) View Online
The Beasts who Talk on the Bayeux Embroidery: The Fables Revisited, by S. D. White and edited by D. Bates, published 19 July 2012 in Anglo-Norman Studies XXXIV: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2011 (article, pp.209-236, Boydell Press, ISBN-13: 9781843837350) View Online
Abstract:Just as the central frieze of the Bayeux Embroidery depicts Harold dux Anglorum and his milites leaving a second-story banquet hall at Bosham, boarding ship and sailing out to sea, the lower border shows the first in an uninterrupted series of Aesopian fables, the last of which appears just as the English reach land and are captured by a lord called Guy (W 4-8). Previous writers on the embroidery are generally agreed that the series includes eight fables, referred to here as the ?canonical' eight to distinguish them from other fables also represented, but rarely if ever noticed. They can be summarized as follows. In Fox and Crow - which reappears first in the lower border, after Harold meets with William, duke of the Normans (W 18), and then in the upper one, as he returns to England (W 27-8) - the crow found a piece of cheese, but the fox tricked him into dropping it and ate it himself. The wolf in Wolf and Lamb met the lamb drinking from a stream and made false charges against him, which the lamb rebutted. But the wolf ate him anyway. Bitch and Puppies - which the lower border shows again, shortly before the battle of Hastings (W 59-60) - tells how one bitch loaned her lair to another who was pregnant and later allowed her to keep it until her puppies were older.
Anglo-Norman Studies XXXV: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2012, edited by David Bates, published 18 July 2013 (Boydell Press, ISBN-13: 9781843838579) View Online
The Role of the Curator of the Bayeux Tapestry, by Sylvette Lemagnen and edited by D. Bates, published 18 July 2013 in Anglo-Norman Studies XXXV: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2012 (article, pp.35-44, Boydell Press, ISBN-13: 9781843838579) View Online
The Identity of the Designer of the Bayeux Tapestry, by H. B. Clarke and edited by D. Bates, published 18 July 2013 in Anglo-Norman Studies XXXV: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2012 (article, pp.119-140, Boydell Press, ISBN-13: 9781843838579) View Online
Anglo-Norman Studies XXXVI: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2013, edited by David Bates, published 17 July 2014 (Boydell Press, ISBN-13: 9781843839224) View Online