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Beech, George T.

George T. Beech is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. He earned his Ph.D. in French Medieval History from Johns Hopkins University.

Solving Some Enigmas of the Middle Ages. The Historian as a Detective
2011 0-7734-1538-6
Examines historical problems encountered on topics from eleventh-century France, England, and the Crusader East, and to a lesser degree from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. These topics include works of art - the Eleanor of Aquitaine vase, the celebrated Bayeux Tapestry, a sixteenth century poem and painting - to inquiries about individual people, such as the first troubadour poet.