Professor of Medieval History at Western Michigan University, USA
Publications
Was the Bayeux tapestry made in France? : the case for St. Florent of Saumur, by George Beech, published 4 June 2005 (xii + 142 pp., Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN-10: 1403966702 & ISBN-13: 9781403966704) accessible at: British Library
Abstract:This book presents the hypothesis that the Bayeux tapestry, long believed to have been made in England, came from the Loire valley in France, from the abbey of St. Florent of Saumur. This is based on a number of different kinds of evidence, the most important of which is signs of a St. Florent/Breton influence in the portrayal of the Breton campaign in the tapestry, about a tenth of the whole.
The alternation between present and past time in the telling of the Bayeux tapestry story, by G. Beech, published 2008 in Annales de Normandie : revue trimestrielle d'études régionales (vol. 58, no. 1/2, article, pp.7-24)