Connecting Historic Graffiti to Past Parishes and Beliefs
Historic graffiti offer new and interesting insights into late medieval and early modern English society. This paper will show the value of studying these inscriptions by discussing two churches constructed in the late medieval period in Suffolk, England, with drawings of two figures that potentiall...
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| description | Historic graffiti offer new and interesting insights into late medieval and early modern English society. This paper will show the value of studying these inscriptions by discussing two churches constructed in the late medieval period in Suffolk, England, with drawings of two figures that potentially represent the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child. These drawings are similar and yet quite different in their quality and execution, and they possibly relate to lost medieval imagery within the building. These images may also have been created in response to various iconoclastic movements that occurred as part of the Reformation as well as after it. This paper seeks to encourage further study on the relationship between historic graffiti and local history by observing the connection between the late medieval parish churches of Lidgate and Stradishall and their respective figural drawings by suggesting that graffiti serve a larger purpose than idle drawing or doodling and instead are valuable pieces of evidence about parish life and values. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-71ae304ca6614116a998b2ea5b89c86d2024-03-27T14:02:11ZengMDPI AGReligions2077-14442024-02-0115330110.3390/rel15030301Connecting Historic Graffiti to Past Parishes and BeliefsCrystal Hollis0The Department of Archaeology and History, Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UKHistoric graffiti offer new and interesting insights into late medieval and early modern English society. This paper will show the value of studying these inscriptions by discussing two churches constructed in the late medieval period in Suffolk, England, with drawings of two figures that potentially represent the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child. These drawings are similar and yet quite different in their quality and execution, and they possibly relate to lost medieval imagery within the building. These images may also have been created in response to various iconoclastic movements that occurred as part of the Reformation as well as after it. This paper seeks to encourage further study on the relationship between historic graffiti and local history by observing the connection between the late medieval parish churches of Lidgate and Stradishall and their respective figural drawings by suggesting that graffiti serve a larger purpose than idle drawing or doodling and instead are valuable pieces of evidence about parish life and values.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/3/301church archaeologygraffitiiconoclasmhistoric graffitiVirgin MarySuffolk |
| spellingShingle | Crystal Hollis Connecting Historic Graffiti to Past Parishes and Beliefs Religions church archaeology graffiti iconoclasm historic graffiti Virgin Mary Suffolk |
| title | Connecting Historic Graffiti to Past Parishes and Beliefs |
| title_full | Connecting Historic Graffiti to Past Parishes and Beliefs |
| title_fullStr | Connecting Historic Graffiti to Past Parishes and Beliefs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Connecting Historic Graffiti to Past Parishes and Beliefs |
| title_short | Connecting Historic Graffiti to Past Parishes and Beliefs |
| title_sort | connecting historic graffiti to past parishes and beliefs |
| topic | church archaeology graffiti iconoclasm historic graffiti Virgin Mary Suffolk |
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