MY INTEREST IN THE TAPESTRY
I have been interested in the Battle of Hastings, the Norman Conquest of England, and the Bayeux Tapestry since teenhood. In graduate school at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro,
I studied with medievalist Professor John Beeler, a scholar of medieval warfare. I completed an M.A. thesis on the historiography of the Norman Conquest of England. Of course, the Bayeux Tapestry played a part in my thesis as it does in the overall history of the Norman Conquest.
Although I did not pursue Anglo-Norman history at the doctoral level, I continued to read the latest scholarship on Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England and, of course, the Bayeux Tapestry. I have done research on the tapestry and related events.
When I finally made the pilgrimage to Bayeux in the 1980s, I was amazed at how fresh the tapestry looked encased in glass at the William the Conqueror Center. Since my trip to Bayeux, I've had renewed interest in the tapestry and what it can tell us about Normandy and England in the eleventh century.

Curriculum Vitae
Dr. John Marshall Carter

EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A. University of North Carolina at Greensboro
B.A. Elon College, Elon, North Carolina

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Teacher at both pre-collegiate and college/university institutions, 1971-Present

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Sports and pastimes in Medieval Europe
Anglo-Norman History
The Bayeux Tapestry
Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Military History

Email Me!
Dr. John Marshall Carter

Links to Other Sites
My Links