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The Bayeux Tapestry: The Norman Conquest 1066 by Norman Denny, Norman Denny, Josephine Filmer-Sankey

ninj's review

3.0

An 8-colour embroidery-on-linen depicting the Norman conquest of England and the Battle of Hastings in 1066, created a couple of years afterward at the order of Bishop Odo in Normandy. After an introduction on the Tapestry and its history, the pages sequentially break down the 70 metres scene by scene. Sections generally give a brief statement of what and who we're looking at, and then a more elaborate chunk of context (since sometimes the Tapestry may differ from other accounts, and it is obviously done from the depiction of the Norman winners).
Bonus, the top of the Tapestry often has latin descriptions of the scenes and people, which at times is semi-readable: edvvard rex (king Edward) and vvillelm dvcis (duke william) and mare navigavit (sail the sea). Alas the book doesn't mention that it's Latin, nor translate it.