English Medieval Misericords: The Margins of Meaning

A comprehensive survey of the intriguing misericord carvings, setting them in their religious context and looking at their different themes and motifs.

Misericord carvings present a fascinating corpus of medieval art which, in turn, complements our knowledge of life and belief in the late middle ages. Subjects range from the sacred to the profane and from the fantastic to the everyday, seemingly giving equal weight to the scatological and the spiritual alike. Focusing specifically on England...