medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
If you send me any pictures you have, I will put them up on my website
for you.
DW
http://nauplion.net
Susan Hoyle wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> The screen I am studying is rather crude: late 15th or early 16th c;
> only the lower part survives, and not all of that. I have a number of
> questions, and I hope it is all right to stuff them all into one
> e-mail, rather than divide them up for gentler effect. This way at
> least you can delete the whole lot more easily...
>
> The screen has 12 panels, each with three parts. The middle section
> of each panel is a shield on which are displayed Instruments of the
> Passion (except for one shield which is blank and another which has a
> human-headed dragon on it). Of the remaining ten, there is a Spear, a
> Hammer, a Crown of Thorns hung on a Cross, a three-part Flail, a
> Pillar with Rope and something which looks like a capital A with a
> line over the top (or a trestle table). I have a feeling that my
> profound ignorance in these matters has just been amply demonstrated.
>
> But let me continue to expose my confusion: four of the shields have
> what look to me like nails in proto-letter shapes plus, in two cases,
> a forked stick with a small rectangle associated with it. I take this
> to be the Sponge. I am not at all sure that the nails aren't letters,
> and that in fact one or two at least of them are a titulus crucis
> fashioned by someone who could not read.
>
> Obviously I need help. Can anyone identify the A image? Is there an
> online source of images which would help me to sort out these
> remaining four puzzles? Is it usual for a roodscreen to have up to
> four different versions of the same instrument? Is there any standard
> meaning in the choice of Instruments? Does the blank shield mean
> anything other than that the money or time ran out? What is the
> human-faced dragon doing in this company? The pew ends in this church
> are much superior in execution and design, although mostly of the same
> date: is it likely that the apprentice worked on the screen while the
> master did the pews? Wouldn't the pews usually be thought less
> important than the screen?
>
> In the past (when I needed teaching the difference between a seahorse
> and a wyvern, a lesson for which I remain forever indebted to this
> list) I was asked to get the pictures online. I am still unable to do
> this, not being attached to any institution and not having a website
> of my own, and I am loath to put anyone else to any trouble if I can
> be directed to a site such as I have imagined to exist....
>
> Susan
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