Maddy,
Firstly, re your churchyard crosses, I was going to reply but couldn't find the ref so thought I'd leave it to a flood of people with better bibliographies... but this hasn't transpired.
I know that current opinion tends to emphasise their role in processions (Ascenscion? Rogation? Palm Sunday) rather than preaching (though surely the latter also took place), but I cannot put my fingers on where I know this from. The obvious source is
Stripping
of the Altars, but I couldn't see a discussion when I looked. Not much help I know, but better than no reply at all.
As to vernacular in stained glass, in the C15/C16 it is not exceptional. The example that springs to mind is the
Pricke of Conscience window in All Saints, North St, York, with quotes from a local text concerning the last 15 days of the world. I have certainly seen others, though the texts tend more to be moral admonitions than biblical quotes: indeed I don't
recall ever seeing an example of the latter. I can think of several late medieval inscriptions in churches, too -- on monuments and stonework -- that have religious or moral (but not Biblical) content and are in the vernacular.
Jon Cannon
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No-one seems to want to be drawn on the use of medieval churchyard crosses for preaching, so here's another one.
I'm puzzling over some fragments of stained glass from a church in south-east Wales. We have so little medieval stained glass in south Wales that these scraps are worth fussing about. One is a fragment of text that looks like the words 'schall do no' -
it looks medieval but it's clearly in the vernacular and might be a fragment of the commandments.
Do list members know of other similar instances of the use of the vernacular in medieval glass?
Maddy
Dr Madeleine Gray PhD, FRHistS
Reader in History/ Darllenydd mewn Hanes
School of Humanities and Lifelong Learning /Ysgol Ddyniaethau a Dysgu Gydol Oes
University of South Wales/Prifysgol De Cymru
Caerleon Campus/Campws Caerllion,
Newport/Casnewydd NP18 3QT Tel: +44 (0)1633.432675
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