Now there’s a phrase to savour in the mouth! But this rather super call-for-papers poster caught my eye and I thought you’d like to enjoy it too, even if not many of us will have a proposal to send in. I got as far as checking my diary (I might just have scraped a subject together) but it clashes with a meeting of Diocesan Synod, and my main call at the moment is to keep the home fires burning.
As someone who’s not really very touchy-feely by upbringing, I am always brought up short and actually rather helped by this late mediaeval ‘affective’ piety. Another striking example is this gilt cradle from the Netherlands c.1480, in which a nun would have kept a Christ figure which she might hold to ‘nurse’, both as if the Christ was a child, and as if at the Deposition (see the carved scene at the foot of the crib).
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