Category: Issue 47
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Books
The Friars in Medieval Britain The Friars in Medieval Britain, edited by Nicholas Rogers, Harlaxton Medieval Studies,Volume XIX, Shaun Tyas, Donnington, 2010, cloth hardback, xii + 356 pages, 44 illus including colour plates) £49.50. Shaun Tyas is one of the unsung heroes of British publishing. For more than twenty years he has published a remarkable…
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Carthusian Stained Glass in Norfolk
Fig. 1. Ketteringham Hall. © Mike DixonRecently I was able, as part of my work on the Norfolk Summary Catalogue for the CVMA (Great Britain), to see for the first time the collection of panels in a large staircase window in Ketteringham Hall, a nineteenth-century reconstructed Tudor mansion, just outside Norwich. [Fig. 1] The glass…
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When Devils Prowled: Jangling & Idle Gossip in Medieval Churches
This month’s panel is a tracery light from the parish church of St Nicholas at Stanford-on-Avon, near Daventry, in Northamptonshire. Description of panel The panel shows three women in conversation while surrounded by assorted denizens of hell. The most prominent of the women wears a pot metal yellow mantle over a murrey gown and holds…
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News
Editorial Dear Readers, Welcome to the first issue of Vidimus in 2011. As usual, this issue is full of surprises and fascinating stories. We have reports of new exhibitions, forthcoming conferences, new websites and much more. Our Panel of the Month sees Roger Rosewell take a close look at the only confirmed surviving representation in stained…
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When Devils Prowled: Jangling & Idle Gossip in Medieval Churches
This month’s panel is a tracery light from the parish church of St Nicholas at Stanford-on-Avon, near Daventry, in Northamptonshire. Description of panel The panel shows three women in conversation while surrounded by assorted denizens of hell. The most prominent of the women wears a pot metal yellow mantle over a murrey gown and holds…