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A Maundy scene from an Anglo-Saxon manuscript: monks washing feet and a king giving alms, in an 11th-century Psalter (BL Harley 603, f.66v) #MaundyThursday
Maundy Thursday was also once known in English as & #39;Sheer Thursday& #39;, from Old Norse skærr, & #39;bright, clear, pure& #39;. The name may derive from the association of the day with various kinds of ritual cleansing: confession, foot-washing, and stripping of altars https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED39895&egs=all&egdisplay=compact">https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec...
Christ washing the disciples& #39; feet, from an Anglo-Saxon carving from Wirksworth, Derbyshire http://www.wirksworth.org.uk/A44-STON.htm ">https://www.wirksworth.org.uk/A44-STON....
The Last Supper, in a wonderfully well-preserved medieval reredos from Somerton, Oxfordshire:
An old (and noisy!) Maundy Thursday tradition from Kendal #page/196/mode/1up">https://archive.org/stream/englishfolkrhyme00nortuoft #page/196/mode/1up">https://archive.org/stream/en...
Christ washing St Peter& #39;s feet, as an angel waits attendance with a towel, from an 11th-century English Psalter http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Tiberius_C_VI">https://www.bl.uk/manuscrip...
The Agony in the Garden, from a 14th-century Book of Hours. Christ is alone, the apostles sleeping, but in the darkness behind him a gallery of medieval faces - kings and queens and ordinary people - keeps vigil with him through the night.
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=11&ref=Yates_Thompson_MS_13">https://www.bl.uk/manuscrip... f. 118v
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=11&ref=Yates_Thompson_MS_13">https://www.bl.uk/manuscrip... f. 118v
