Marion's Miscellaneous Musings

Here are the pictures I promised a few days ago. These are three different Cathedrals in Prague. That is enough pictures for one post!

The detail is incredible! And there was a reason for it: in a mostly illiterate society, all the stories are in the stained glass and the art and the statures, making you functionally literate. (Is this why the Catholic church at that time did not emphasize people reading the Bible for themselves? The protestant reformation (or the great breakup of the church, depending which side of the aisle you are on) which did do so, succeeded because movable type had made books easily available, and the literacy rate rose.)