Christopher Crockett wrote:
>they did have Art: the interior of their parish churches likely covered with
>paintings (99.9999% since lost), the major churches of the towns and regional
>centers ditto and, increasingly from the end of the 11th c., dressed up with
>glass painting and (overly important for us because of
>its happenstantially better survival rate) stone sculpture, both of which
>media were frequently concerned with locally important saints.
True; I forgot that. But little of that art would have been understood
without preaching, or catechesis, or whatever you'd like to call it, to
explain what was going on and what was meant.
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Earlham College
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