In western Europe in the Middle Ages, the Christian church had a problem - it had a book full of stories, but the population couldn't read (that's probably why Minecraft.net had such low readership in the Middle Ages too). How could priests share the tales of the Bible with an illiterate audience outside of their weekly sermons? The answer came in the form of our block of the week - Stained Glass.
Engineers teamed up with artists to create huge, complex, stained glass windows for churches that depicted the teachings of the Old and New Testament. Images taken from manuscripts were carefully reconstructed in glass, allowing priests to show - as well as tell - people about the life of Jesus, the Virgin Mary and others. We take the entertainment value of stained glass windows for granted now, but back in ye olden days, this was the closest those long-ago folk had to Netflix. Er, in a way.
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