Thank you Matthew Champion


Read this at https://medieval-graffiti.blogspot.com/
"A moment in time - when a resigned population took stock of what God had sent their way, and what the church had failed to protect them from, and carved, painted and gilded their own reactions to events in the very fabric of the church itself. A stark irreverence combined with open elements of humour and parody. Fat friars and stupid priests, lecherous monks and harlot nuns, green men and grotesque beasts - all thrust into the very body of the church. Gone is the quiet reverence, and instead flows out a stream of self expression that obliquely questions the very structure of the church and the society in which they lived."
in  https://medieval-graffiti.blogspot.com/2018/11/messing-about-in-church-sublime-and.html

I think it encapsulates so much about post Black Death religion in Norfolk. I will quote it often!

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