Images on the Edge: churches, manuscripts, and the world of Chaucer's Japes
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1h 2m
Enjoy this amazing talk, which is given by leading medieval art expert, Professor Paul Binski.
Medieval England was famous for its marginal art - bizarre, funny and playful images crowd the borders of illuminated manuscripts and peek out at us in parish churches. But what were they for? Did they have deeper political meanings or were they there to amuse?
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