"Bayeux Tapestry Question" Topic

I'm reading "The Battle of Hastings" by Tetlow and would like to study the Bayeux Tapestry. I found a reproduction of the entire tapestry on one page (it's apparently over 30 feet long). Now I would like to find a more scholarly contemporary annotation of the tapestry. I see there are several in print. Does anyone recommend a particular book?

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You could say I am a fan of the Bayeux Tapestry :)

I don't have a single seminal work on the Tapestry, ironically enough. The reason being, that interpreting it is so open-ended, that I have felt my own efforts to be more valid than most! I do have the Scholarly Digital Editions 2003 CD on the BT, though, by Martin K. Foys, and that is excellent. It is like a book on disc, for length, but is set up as a continuous run of the BT from beginning to end, with in depth commentary throughout (citing many authorities and sources).

In book form, 'The Bayeaux Tapestry' by David M Wilson

It has the complete Tapestry in full colour, and then each page annotated in black and white at the back.

Thanks Doug, that's a very interesting site you've put together. I saw that CD on Amazon, but wanted to wait on it as it's $75. USD I prefer a book regardless.

Many thanks on the Wilson book, Fredd. If you think it's the better version, I'll pick that one up.

I have the book fold out sheet thingie and it's pretty awesome. If you ever get the chance to stop by there do so, it's even more impressive in person.

I have a copy of 'The Bayeaux Tapestry' by Norman Denny and Josephine Filmer-Sankey. excellent book but probably no longer in print – published by Collins, dated 1966 and at a price of 25 shillings!

That's UK shillings nothing to do with Austria

The CD is a bit cheaper here -

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And on a lighter note –

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If you want the complete Tapestry full size and can't get there to borrow the real thing, the book is as close as you will get.

"Full size", surely NOT 20 inches wide and 230 feet long? Now, THAT would be a reproduction alrighty.