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Standing in the nave of Ely cathedral when I was 14, I stopped listening to the guide saying how long and how high and started wondering how on earth ordinary human beings created sky-scraping, dizzyingly high buildings on which even…
The art and architecture of Islam has often been held to be very different from that of the west, bound by different and more rigorously enforced rules, but is that true? It may be that the two cultures have borrowed…
They have been called spectacles to help you see right into heaven and they have caused one of the greatest theological debates, lasting over a century. They have caused grown men to convert to Christianity and others to fling them…
The two great styles of architecture, Romanesque and Gothic, remain in our cathedrals and churches today. Very often side by side, and different from each other, nonetheless they sit well together, complementing each other’s strengths and fragilities. Given that it…
This lecture takes the audience on a tour of some of the extraordinary images that exist in over 700 churches in England. The art form was in vogue mainly from C13th – C16th and rarely includes religious images despite the…
How to read the signs and symbols within Medieval art, some more easy to detect than others. This lectures considers art of the period c.1100 – c.1500 and guides the audience through where it might be found and the forms…
More correctly called ‘foliate heads’, there was a proliferation of Green Man images around the year 1400. The lecture discusses how the image may have evolved from pagan and Classical times and what its purpose may have been. Although they…
You don’t have to go into many churches right across Europe, or look at many manuscripts made at any time during the Middle Ages to notice fabulous monsters, mythical beasts and grotesques rampaging through the carvings and pages. Some are…