Churches: How to Read Them - Season 1 Episode 4 Reformation: Chaos and Creation
10.0048 minutes
The late middle ages was a time of destruction that still leaves its mark on our churches today. With the help of art historian Sister Wendy Beckett and a spectacular stained glass window, Richard Taylor tries to understand the intense medieval devotion to the Virgin Mary and how this fuelled the anger of the Reformation that followed.