medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> But - just to play Devil's Advocate - surely the *church* continued to
> be used by the parishioners? Could one not argue that the very loss of
> status provided a good reason for *them* to get involved with its
> fittings and furnishings (if indeed anyone else ever was, from what you
> say: all this Cornish woodwork is local architecture for local people,
> to coin a phrase)...
Jon,
This raises the larger issue of what might have been done to English churches after
the Act of Supremacy, given the growing concern of the New Management to
regulate what was in churches. There was certainly quite a bit of destruction of
images and screens, etc., in churches at this time. Although this is, I believe, a
much under-studied problem, it would not seem to be a particularly felicitous time to
be commissioning elaborate woodwork of any sort for English churches.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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