Tuesday 5 May,
12:00am - 1:00amon BBC Four
Art That Made Us
Series 1 Episode 2: Revolution of the Dead`The Vision of Piers Plowman' and breakthrough works by women like the spirited pilgrim Margery Kempe. Poet laureate Simon Armitage reflects on the poem of loss, `Pearl', as a window into the medieval mind, and artist Sarah Maple shines a light on the subversive Lincoln Cathedral misericords, carved in the wake of plague. Meanwhile, writer Maria Fusco explores how the profound faith of female mystic Julian of Norwich is unshaken by illness.
- Category
- Art / History
- Original air date
- 14/04/2022
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