Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England write by Jeremy Dimmick. This book was released on 2002-02-14. Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book capitalizes on brilliant recent work on sixteenth-century iconoclasm to extend the study of images, both their making and their breaking, into an earlier period and wider discursive territories. Pressures towards iconoclasm are powerfully registered in fourteenth and fifteenth-century writings, both heterodox and orthodox, just as the use of images is central to the practice of both politics and religion. The governance of images turns out, indeed, to be central to governance itself. It is also of critical concern in any moment of historical change, when new cultural forms must incorporate or destroy the images of the old order. The iconoclast redescribes images as pure matter, objects of idolatry worthy only of the hammer. Issues of historical memory, no less than of social ethics, are, then, inherent to the making, love, and destruction of images. These issues are the consistent concern of the essays of this volume, essays commissioned from a range of outstanding late medievalists in a variety of disciplines: literature, art history, Biblical studies, and intellectual history.
Le Pèlerinage Jhesuchrist
Le Pèlerinage Jhesuchrist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Le Pèlerinage Jhesuchrist write by Guillaume de Deguileville. This book was released on 1897. Le Pèlerinage Jhesuchrist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Popular Piety and Art In The Late Middle Ages
Popular Piety and Art In The Late Middle Ages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Popular Piety and Art In The Late Middle Ages write by Kathleen Kamerick. This book was released on 2002-06-29. Popular Piety and Art In The Late Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Medieval churchmen typically defended religious art as a form of "book" to teach the unlettered laity their faith, but in late medieval England, Lollard accusations of idolatry stimulated renewed debate over image worship. Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages places this dispute within the context of the religious beliefs and devotional practices of lay people, showing how they used and responded to holy images in their parish churches, at shrines, and in prayer books. Far more than substitutes for texts, holy images presented a junction of the material and spiritual, offering an increasingly literate laity access to the supernatural through the visual power of "beholding."
The Idolatrous Eye
The Idolatrous Eye - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Idolatrous Eye write by Michael O'Connell. This book was released on 2000-01-13. The Idolatrous Eye available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study argues that the century after the Reformation saw a crisis in the way that Europeans expressed their religious experience. Focusing specifically on how this crisis affected the drama of England, O'Connell shows that Reformation culture was preoccupied with idolatry and that the theater was frequently attacked as idolatrous. This anti-theatricalism notably targeted the traditional cycles of mystery plays--a type of vernacular, popular biblical theater that from a modern perspective would seem ideally suited to advance the Reformation project. The Idolatrous Eye provides a wide perspective on iconoclasm in the sixteenth century, and in so doing, helps us to understand why this biblical theater was found transgressive and what this meant for the secular theater that followed.
The Visual Object of Desire in Late Medieval England
The Visual Object of Desire in Late Medieval England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Visual Object of Desire in Late Medieval England write by Sarah Stanbury. This book was released on 2015-07-10. The Visual Object of Desire in Late Medieval England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Little remains of the rich visual culture of late medieval English piety. The century and a half leading up to the Reformation had seen an unparalleled growth of devotional arts, as chapels, parish churches, and cathedrals came to be filled with images in stone, wood, alabaster, glass, embroidery, and paint of newly personalized saints, angels, and the Holy Family. But much of this fell victim to the Royal Injunctions of September 1538, when parish officials were ordered to remove images from their churches. In this highly insightful book Sarah Stanbury explores the lost traffic in images in late medieval England and its impact on contemporary authors and artists. For Chaucer, Nicholas Love, and Margery Kempe, the image debate provides an urgent language for exploring the demands of a material devotional culture—though these writers by no means agree on the ethics of those demands. The chronicler Henry Knighton invoked a statue of St. Katherine to illustrate a lurid story about image-breaking Lollards. Later John Capgrave wrote a long Katherine legend that comments, through the drama of a saint in action, on the powers and uses of religious images. As Stanbury contends, England in the late Middle Ages was keenly attuned to and troubled by its "culture of the spectacle," whether this spectacle took the form of a newly made queen in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale or of the animate Christ in Norwich Cathedral's Despenser Retable. In picturing images and icons, these texts were responding to reformist controversies as well as to the social and economic demands of things themselves, the provocative objects that made up the fabric of ritual life.
