Images of #Easter from #medieval East Anglia: Resurrection

"He is aresyn, this is no nay!/that was deed and colde in clay/now is resyn, belyve this day!" proclaims the soldier on discovering the empty tomb in the 15thC Norfolk N-Town play now BL Cotton Vespasian DVIII (1/9)

Given the centrality of the Resurrection to the Christian faith it is unsurprising that images abounded in #medieval East Anglia; Nichols' Early Art lists 33 extant examples from Norfolk alone. This thread is a few of my favourites in different media. (2/9)

The late 15thC glass at East Harling is rightly famous and it's easy to see why from this detail of Christ stepping from his tomb (3/9).

The Resurrection also features in a number of #medieval Norfolk bosses such as these two from Denton (left) and St Helen's, Norwich (right), both late 15thC (4/9).

This 15thC detail of soldiers in armour is from Northwold and is from an Easter sepulchre where a crucifix or host was placed Good Friday to Easter Day to symbolise Christ's entombment (5/9).

This detail of a memorial brass c.1545 depicts Christ stepping from his tomb in the square panel above the kneeling figures of Sir John Spelman and his wife (6/9).

Another 16thC example is the tapestry in St Peter Mancroft, Norwich, woven in the 1570s by Flemish weavers who had sought sanctuary in the city (7/9).

There are also a number of depictions of the Resurrection in #medieval manuscripts from East Anglia such as this historiated initial in the Stowe Breviary (now BL Stowe MS 12) made in East Anglia in the mid-14thC (8/9).

Finally, for no other reason than it's one of my favourite places in Norfolk which I can't wait to visit when it's safe to do so: a detail from the screen at Binham c.1500 showing the resurrected Christ over-painted with quotations from Cranmer's 1539 Great Bible (9/9).