medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I'm theorising ahead of my data here ... and I haven't read all the
discussion in this strand so these points may already have been covered.
My impression is that Holy Trinity dedications/chantries/guilds tend to
be late medieval (though as Rosemary has just pointed out there are
clearly lots of exceptions to this) and belong to the period of intense
devotion to the body of the suffering Christ. Depictions of the Trinity
tend to be like this one in north Wales -
http://cistercian-way.newport.ac.uk/image.asp?imageName=llanrhychwyn_tri
nityL - with a clear focus on the affective relationship between Father
and Son.
Presumably what you had was not a relic but a carving similar to this -
there was actually a carving of the Trinity rather than a conventional
Crucifix on the rood screen at Llanbeblig, near Caernarfon.
Maddy
Dr Madeleine Gray, in the foothills of God's golden county of Gwent
What we have at Holy Trinity, Bradford on Avon, is a brass dating from
around 1530 and similar to a section of the Dauntsey brass which can be seen
on http://www.mbs-brasses.co.uk/pic_lib/May_2006_brass_of_the_month.htm .
However our brass differs in that God the Father is shown as an old man with
a beard and does not have a crown, and the Holy Spirit is on Christ's left
arm. It is presumably meant to be a dove, and is a cheerful looking bird.
The brass was not actually in the chantry of Holy Trinity, but in one to Our
Lady, and was on the tombstone of an extremely wealthy clothier, who could
have belonged to a Corpus Christi guild.
Anne Willis
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