Matthew J. Champion MA. FSA.Matthew Champion studied history and landscape archaeology at the University of East Anglia. He is a freelance archaeologist based in Norfolk and widely regarded as England’s leading expert on medieval graffiti inscriptions, and has worked with organisations such as English Heritage and the National Trust, as well as writing and lecturing extensively upon the subject. Matthew is currently Project Director of the multi-award winning Norfolk and Suffolk Medieval Graffiti Survey. His most recent full length work,'Medieval Graffiti: the lost voices of Englands Churches', was published by Ebury Press in 2015.
Matthew Champion "Medieval Graffiti: The Lost Voices of England's Churches"
Friday 12th March 2021, 20:00-20:00
Today most forms of graffiti are regarded as destructive, as anti-social, and certainly not something that we should encourage or welcome on our historic churches. However, that attitude is largely a modern one. Prior to about 1850 all forms of graffiti were, like the outrageous marginalia of a medieval manuscript, at least accepted. As a result our medieval churches are covered in hundreds of thousands of largely unrecorded inscriptions. Inscriptions that deal with matters of faith, of commerce, and of life and death. Waiting only for someone to read them.
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