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New version now available (2013), online only. This contains all the material of the CD-ROM version in a completely updated interface, running online through any up-to-date web browser. The online version also contains several features not present in the CD-ROM version:

• Presents the Tapestry in a resizeable window, so you can make it as large as your computer screen (the CD-ROM places the whole publication in a non-resizable 800 by 600 pixel window)
• Full-screen option, so you can fill your whole screen with the Tapestry
• New 'Compare versions' feature: so you can compare any two versions of the tapestry side-by-side, with a unique synchronized scrolling feature
• 'Live' navigation bar, summarizing each scene as you drag the pointer across it
• Runs in all major browsers on all major computer systems (sorry -- we use Flash, so it does not work in an I-Phone or I-Pad)

In both online and CD-ROM versions, you can scroll through the entire Tapestry and zoom in on the Tapestry to the level of the actual weave. Both include a whole host of supporting materials, including:

• hyperlinked scholarly commentary on each of the 173 panels, detailing all major and minor interpretative issues in the Tapestry; an outline to facilitate non-linear navigation of sections of the Tapestry; the ability to toggle between English and Latin in the inscriptions ( link to screenshot and more info)

  

• more general descriptions of the forty scenes of the Tapestry, intended as a beginner's guide to the "plot" of the work ( link to screenshot and more info)

  

• a full glossary of People, Places, Details and Events depicted or referenced in the Tapestry, complete with a linked index ( link to screenshot and more info)

  

• an animated and clickable map of English and Norman geography of the Tapestry, and a map of the battlefield ( link to screenshot and more info)

  

• 360 degree video panoramas of the battlefield at Hastings ( link to screenshot and more info)

  

• a clickable genealogy of William and Harold's ties to the English throne ( link to screenshot and more info)

  

• a library featuring translations of seventeen textual analogues to the events depicted in the Tapestry, with editorial notes to link the texts to the Tapestry ( link to screenshot and more info)

  

• a museum containing thirty-seven visual analogues (medieval artifacts, manuscript illuminations, archaeological remains, etc.) to aspects of the Tapestry ( link to screenshot and more info)

  

• a search engine allowing for variable keyword searches of the 400+ text files contained in the edition ( link to screenshot and more info)

  

• a searchable bibliography of all 300+ works referenced in the edition ( link to screenshot and more info)

  

• a full introduction, detailing the history, manufacture, purpose and restoration of the Tapestry. ( link to screenshot and more info)

  

• full scrollable and zoomable versions of three early (pre-restoration) facsimiles of the Tapestry: the 1730 Montfaucon, the 1821 Stothard, and the 1886 Leek ( link to screenshot and more info)

  

• a slideshow feature, allowing users to pre-arrange the order in which panels of the Tapestry may be displayed ( link to screenshot and more info)

  

• a print and copy facility, allowing any text from the edition to be printed, or copied for use in a word processing program ( link to screenshot and more info)

The CD-ROM edition supersedes the on-line prototype. It is with some sadness that I must announce that, after four years of operation, the on-line prototype of my Digital Edition of the Bayeux Tapestry has ended. I would like also to thank publicly the hundreds of people who have used this edition while in development, and especially those who offered constructive feedback.

©2002 Martin Kennedy Foys

Dr. Martin Foys
Department of English
Hood College
foys@hood.edu