Category: Issue 24
-
Builders & Decorators: Medieval Craftsmen in Wales
Fig. 1.Although most medieval glass in Wales has been lost, there is still plenty to see, as a new book by the distinguished art historian, Nicola Coldstream, reminds us. Builders & Decorators: Medieval Craftsmen in Wales is a lavishly illustrated, 65-page guide to the best of the principality’s medieval buildings and the skilled craftsmen who…
-
Christmas Ghost Story … ‘An Incident in Alsace’
Last Christmas we featured a ghost story written by the distinguished medievalist, M. R. James (1862–1936). Such stories were read by candlelight to a group of his friends at Christmas. This year we are reviving that story-telling tradition (swapping candlelight for flickering computer screens). It involves a letter sent to Vidimus by the descendent of…
-
A Monstrous Centaur in Oxford?
A Monstrous Centaur in Oxford In one of the tracery lights of the east window of the Lucy Chapel in the south transept of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, a strange figure rides forth. The white body of a hooved animal charges across a blue background of stick-work foliage. It is attached to the head and…
-
News
Rare Thirteenth-Century Glass Smashed at Lincoln Cathedral On 30 November, the lowest panel in an important thirteenth-century lancet window (s.28) in the south transept of Lincoln Cathedral was smashed by an intruder. [Fig. 1. The complete window, s.28. © Gordon Plumb] Cathedral sources told Vidimus that the unknown intruder may have hidden in the cathedral…