Peterborough Cathedral: Its History and
Imagery
Mon 15 Feb 2021 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM GMT
Online, Zoom
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Peterborough Cathedral began life as an abbey church in the seventh century. This talk explains the development of the great building, and concentrates on the painted ceiling created from 1238, which has proven difficult to decipher. The speaker's recent monograph on the cathedral for the first time identifies the characters depicted on the ceiling and explores the background to its creation, heralding its status as the greatest political billboard of the English middle ages, and throwing new light on the aftermath of Magna Carta.
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