Society for Church Archaeology | Visualizing Purgatory in the Medieval English Church

The Society for Church Archaeology is delighted to welcome Dr Meg Bernstein for ‘Visualizing Purgatory in the Medieval English Parish Church’. Meg Bernstein is a Fulbright US Scholar in History of Art at the University of York in 2021-2, and holds a postdoctoral fellowship from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. She graduated from UCLA in 2019 with a PhD in Art History, focusing on medieval art and architecture. Meg’s current book project, tentatively titled A Living Church: Building the English Parish, 1150-1300, examines the social and spatial developments in parish churches in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, demonstrating that these buildings were a vehicle for the expression of new religious and social identities.

The lecture will be hosted through Zoom and will take place on Tuesday 7th June 2022 from 19:00 to 20:00.

Please note: When you register for this talk you will receive an email (with reminders leading up to the event) with a link to a unique Online Event Page. This is where you will be able to access the talk at the scheduled time and date as listed.