Sunday, 10 March 2019

'Why I love medieval Graffiti' by @jessikart

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(This blog-post by @jessikart was first published on the Standard Issue website, and is archived here because it is too funny and insightf...
Sunday, 30 December 2018

My cult is bigger than your cult: judging the popularity of saints in the Middle Ages

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December the 29th was the feast of the martyrdom of St Thomas Becket. Just in case you didn't know. You might not I suppose. It is pos...
Monday, 3 December 2018

After all, it is only graffiti...

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Over the last eight years St Mary's church at Troston in Suffolk has received a fair amount of media attention. Whilst the church was ...
Thursday, 8 November 2018

Messing about in church: the sublime AND the ridiculous

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North west Norfolk. You tend not to expect too much from churches in this small corner of the county. There are undeniably some real maste...
Friday, 2 November 2018

Getting your kit off in a Nottinghamshire church: why attitudes have to change

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So a couple of weeks ago the local mums of East Markham got their kit off. The ladies of the village were to be found hanging around in the...
Friday, 26 October 2018

Castle Rising font: bringing a light to dark places

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I have a really long list of academic articles to write. I usually have three or four on the go at any one time, as well as a couple of bo...
Saturday, 28 October 2017

Death in the garden: prisoner graffiti from a forgotten war.

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In the 1980s a strange and unnerving painting came to light in Ontario, Canada. The painting was executed in a naive eighteenth century sty...
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