medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I am working on a reconstruction and interpretation of some late
medieval wall paintings in a Welsh church. The church is being rebuilt
at the Museum of Welsh Life in Cardiff and the museum wants to repaint
the sequence in the reconstructed building.
This is setting us a few intellectual problems! But there are also
practical problems with identifying some of the paintings. In
particular: the main sequence is a meditation on the Crucifixion story.
This is not strictly narrative - parts are out of sequence and what it
seems to be is a development from a couple of earlier free-standing
images, focussing on the Instruments of the Passion.
The surviving images are (reading clockwise from W end of N wall):
angel with nails; Mocking; Christ in Majesty; Bound Christ; Image of
Piety; Deposition. Underlying these is a continuous band with decoration
and writing. All we can make out of the writing looks like a litany in
Latin and English (unusual for that area and date) - 'A dent [possibly A
dentibus mortis] ... Jhu mer ....' . Does anyone recognise the prayer?
Maddy
Dr Madeleine Gray, in the foothills of God's golden county of Gwent
School of Humanities and Science, University of Wales, Newport
Caerleon Campus, PO Box 179, Newport NP18 3YG. Tel: +44 (0)1633.432675
'Even big collections of ordinary books distort space and time, as can
readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned
second-hand bookshop'.
History at University of Wales, Newport: http://timezone.newport.ac.uk
Gwent County History Association website:
http://gwent-county-history-association.newport.ac.uk
Cistercian Way: http://cistercian-way.newport.ac.uk
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