Lost Medieval Chapel Sheds Light on Royal Burials at Westminster Abbey, study finds

New evidence, helping to form a 15th-century reconstruction of part of Westminster Abbey, demonstrates how a section of the building was once the focus for the royal family’s devotion to the cult of a disemboweled saint and likely contained gruesome images of his martyrdom. Medievalists.net

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