Sunday 17 September 2017

Tewkesbury Festival and Religious Iconography in the WoRs



A few comments and images from another excellent, hot day at the festival, with many of the reenactors suffering from the heat during the and after the fight. As ever, I found the living history at the camps the real jewel, with plenty of generous and welcoming re-enactors.


There was a real international feel this year with French, German and Belgium groups, as well as the Italian flag throwers.



I was particularly struck by the flag below, the five wounds of Christ, carried by a member of the Paston Household. It is good to see some religious as well as heraldic imagery in use.  More on this is latter posts.



Image result for the five wounds of christ
Woodcut from an English blockbook, ca. 1495
Posted by at

2 comments:

  1. tomw20 January 2019 at 23:43

    Happen to have a better picture of the last flag?

    ReplyDelete
  2. Stuart H25 January 2019 at 19:52

    Hi Tomw, Ive added another image I have of the flag from the day. Not much better but I've painted up on at 28mm based on the Tewkesbury example and this 1495 one - https://thejesusquestion.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/five-wounds-of-christ-2.jpg

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)