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An excerpt from an article at Canticum Salomonis. https://sicutincensum.wordpress.com/2018/08/08/what-happened-to-french-rood-screens-fr-thiers-dissertation-ecclesiastique-sur-les-jubes/ Whatever Happened to French Rood Screens? Fr. Thiers’ Dissertation Ecclésiastique sur les Jubés On the heels of Monday’s post on the Jubé/Rood Screen , we now introduce a new translation, Fr. Jean-Baptiste Thiers’ Treatise on Jubés , a polemical treatise written in protest of the widespread destruction of rood screens and ambos led by the Gallican episcopacy and canonical chapters during the 17th century. Fr. Thiers’ treatise is one of the first systematic attempts to understand the origin, development, and use of the rood screen. Like his other works On Altars and On Choirs , its aim is to explain and defend the Gothic ecclesiastical architecture of France against an aggressive “Baroquification” that often destroyed the ancient elements that once separated the sanctuary and the na...

The Victorian Web: image scanned by George P. Landow An excerpt from an article by Harry Mount at the Catholic Herald on rood screens, that also mentions a new book by Richard Hayman, available at the link below: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Screens-Shire-Library-Richard-Hayman/dp/1784422940 - - - The screens – which divide chancel from nave, and were originally topped with a rood, the Anglo-Saxon word for a cross, with the crucified Christ flanked by Mary and John the Evangelist – are crucial to the layout of a church, to English church history and to the aesthetic understanding of our most important buildings, our parish churches. And Hayman, in his gentle, easy-going, unacademic prose, is the perfect rood-screen guide. [...] (P)lenty of pre-Reformation rood screens survive; the earliest, from the late 13th century, are at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, and Kirkstead, Lincolnshire. Most surviving screens are from the 15th and 16th centuries. In the ...