What the early chapterhouses teach us today

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Wells Cathedral, Somerset cc 1275 - 1310

Before you read or listen to this article I really recommend that you may open and read the associated pre study here: about the stage effect. This gives an insight into how frontal performance, action (on the stage, then on the screen) has influenced modern media-fuelled society and how it works in the church. Yes. Indeed in the Church - when Sunday church meeting is reduced to a performance and service - for the visitors.
What the early chapterhouses teach us today shows us something quite different... coming soon..
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