king’s evil

Articles in the Antiquary have an extraordinary habit of containing strands within them that link them together, and it is rarely intentional.  That connectivity is particularly marked this month. The first article focuses on a delightful place, Slapton church in Northamptonshire, a gorgeous building, adorned inside with a rare and beautiful collection of medieval wall paintings.  These examples of simple, vernacular art have survived despite the changes of the Protestant Reformation.  One of the images painted on the wall at Slapton is that of St Christopher and in the next article we focus on him and his iconography – it has long been a tradition that seeing his image was effective in curing disease and preventing sudden death.  Lastly, we move from the curing qualities of images, to the curing affect of touch and we have an article about the extraordinary medieval tradition of ‘touching for the king’s evil,’ a ceremony in which the touch of the English sovereign was considered effective in curing infectious disease. Not unlike the wall paintings at Slapton, this extraordinary medieval ceremony somehow survived the English Reformation.

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