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Emma J Wells: Heaven on Earth (1220)
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Walking around a cathedral today can be a solemn and an awe-inspiring experience, but what if we could stand inside the same building and travel back 800 years or so? In this episode we do exactly that.
Our guide is Dr Emma J. Wells, a historian, broadcaster and author of Heaven on Earth: The Lives and Legacies of the World’s Greatest Cathedrals.
In this beautifully illustrated book, Emma visits sixteen world-renowned cathedrals ranging from Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, to the “northern powerhouse” of York Minster. She describes their origins, the striking and unusual stories attached to them and the people central to their history.
In this episode, Emma takes me to the high medieval period, when European architecture was falling in love with the gothic style and cathedral-building was at its height.
Dr Emma J. Wells’s new book Heaven on Earth is out now from Head of Zeus.
Show notesScene One: Canterbury cathedral, trinity chapel, the scene of St Thomas Becket’s elevation and translation into his new shrine.
Scene Two: Salisbury, the ceremonial laying of the first five foundation stones of the new cathedral after its move from Old Sarum.
Scene Three: Chartres, France, William de Breton described the growing cathedral’s vaults as bringing to ‘look like the shell of a tortoise’ referring to the higher vaults and a longer and wider nave than any other in Christendom.
Memento: To restore the “super-shrine” of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.
People/Social
Presenter: Artemis Irvine
Guest: Dr Emma J. Wells
Production: Maria Nolan
Podcast partner: Ace Cultural Tours
Follow us on Twitter: @tttpodcast_
Or on Facebook
See where 1220 fits on our Timeline
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Manage episode 345180206 series 2473593
Walking around a cathedral today can be a solemn and an awe-inspiring experience, but what if we could stand inside the same building and travel back 800 years or so? In this episode we do exactly that.
Our guide is Dr Emma J. Wells, a historian, broadcaster and author of Heaven on Earth: The Lives and Legacies of the World’s Greatest Cathedrals.
In this beautifully illustrated book, Emma visits sixteen world-renowned cathedrals ranging from Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, to the “northern powerhouse” of York Minster. She describes their origins, the striking and unusual stories attached to them and the people central to their history.
In this episode, Emma takes me to the high medieval period, when European architecture was falling in love with the gothic style and cathedral-building was at its height.
Dr Emma J. Wells’s new book Heaven on Earth is out now from Head of Zeus.
Show notesScene One: Canterbury cathedral, trinity chapel, the scene of St Thomas Becket’s elevation and translation into his new shrine.
Scene Two: Salisbury, the ceremonial laying of the first five foundation stones of the new cathedral after its move from Old Sarum.
Scene Three: Chartres, France, William de Breton described the growing cathedral’s vaults as bringing to ‘look like the shell of a tortoise’ referring to the higher vaults and a longer and wider nave than any other in Christendom.
Memento: To restore the “super-shrine” of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.
People/Social
Presenter: Artemis Irvine
Guest: Dr Emma J. Wells
Production: Maria Nolan
Podcast partner: Ace Cultural Tours
Follow us on Twitter: @tttpodcast_
Or on Facebook
See where 1220 fits on our Timeline
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