Visual Reflections on History and Kingship in the Medieval English Great Church
Laura Slater
The images of royalty set up on the western face choir-screen or pulpitum medieval English great churches formed an enduring iconographic tradition which was found across England and apparently without continental parallel. Discussing in detail remains at Salisbury cathedral records screen Durham cathedral, this article suggests their potential antecedents 12th-century representations lineage. It then explores probable meanings functions for contemporary audiences, with reference to liturgy, history clerical identity.
Journal of the British Archaeological Association