16 October 2024 Dr Sally Dormer lectures medieval churches craftsmen
16
October 2024

Heaven on Earth – The Medieval Church and its Furnishings

Welcome to The Arts Society North Bedfordshire
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 - 10:00 to 13:30
St Andrews Church, Kimbolton Road Bedford MK40 2PF
Online Event

Special Interest Day - Dr Sally Dormer to present two very special lectures on the medieval church.

‘’Medieval churches were often described by contemporary writers as a visual and sensory foretaste of Heaven on earth. Their grand proportions, brightly coloured interiors and costly furnishings fashioned from gold, silver, silk, ivory and enamel created an otherworldly paradise, a dramatic contrast with everyday experience. This Special Interest Day will explore how patrons and craftsmen achieved these effects in 11th and 12th century Romanesque Europe."   

Cost: £38 including light sandwich lunch.

Image provided by lecturer.

Dr Sally Dormer
Sally is a freelance medieval art historian and lecturer. She read History at the University of Durham, before completing an MA in Medieval Art History and a Ph.D. on medieval illuminated manuscripts at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. She is Course Director for the V&A’s Early Medieval, and Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Year Courses and from 1999-2020 was Dean of European Studies, a study abroad semester for under-graduates from two universities in Tennessee, USA. Sally teaches, or has taught for, the Art Fund, Gresham College, and the Arts Society and leads study tours in England, France and Italy, for Art Pursuits and Cox & Kings.