(RNS) — Floor tiles from Chertsey Abbey in England, the subject of a new exhibition, resemble Muslim and Byzantine silks that crusaders brought back as souvenirs.

The Chertsey tiles initially piqued her interest in 2000, when she went to England on a fellowship during graduate study at Harvard University, where she received a PhD.

Medieval jigsaw: Art historians have pieced together hundreds of tile fragments to produce this digital reconstruction of the long-lost mosaic pavement (Amanda Luyster, College of The Holy Cross ...