Poor Man's Bible Research Paper

Gothic architecture allowed churches to be bigger and taller than ever before, they used Flying Buttresses to take the weight of the walls and redirected that weight into the ground. The pointed arch also helped take some of the weight and allowed the columns inside the church to become smaller because, as they didn't have to hold all the weight of the arch. All this made it possible to have much larger windows, these were made into beautiful works of stained glass, which display scenes and messages that were important from the bible. This was necessary firstly because a fair amount of people in that time were illiterate and secondly with the printing press not being invented yet, copies of the bible had to be done by hand and that lead to not many people owning a bible. As a result the churches, who still wanted to spread the teaching of the bible, used artwork like paintings and sculptures in the churches to convey the messages. This became know as the "Poor Man's Bible" since all people had to do was come to the church and it didn't cost them anything. …show more content…
One great example of this method is the stained glass windows, they were grand and colorful when the light hit them they were illuminated and easy for all in the church to see and learn the teaching of the