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Author:

Aston, Margaret, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84223292

Title:

Broken idols of the English Reformation / Margaret Aston.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xvii, 1,109 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Subject:

Reformation--England.
Iconoclasm--England--16th century.
Idols and images--England--History--16th century.
Religious articles--England--History--16th century.
Offenses against religion--England--History--16th century.
Social change--England--History--16th century.
Christianity--History--England--History--16th century.
England--Social conditions--16th century.
England--Religion--16th century.
Christianity--Social aspects.
Iconoclasm.
Idols and images.
Offenses against religion.
Reformation.
Religion.
Religious articles.
Social change.
Social conditions.
England.
1500 - 1599
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Part I -- 1. The call to destroy -- 2. Answering the call -- 3. Steps to the temple -- Part II -- 4. Saints popular and unpopular : St Thomas of Canterbury and St George -- 5. Reforming sound : bells and organs -- 6. Images of the Trinity -- Part III -- 7. Windows -- 8. The cross -- 9. Word against image -- Conclusion.

Summary:

"Why were so many religious images and objects broken and damaged in the course of the Reformation? Margaret Aston's magisterial new book charts the conflicting imperatives of destruction and rebuilding throughout the English Reformation from the desecration of images, rails and screens to bells, organs and stained glass windows. She explores the motivations of those who smashed images of the crucifixion in stained glass windows and who pulled down crosses and defaced symbols of the Trinity. She shows that destruction was part of a methodology of religious revolution designed to change people as well as places and to forge in the long term new generations of new believers. Beyond blanked walls and whited windows were beliefs and minds impregnated by new modes of religious learning. Idol-breaking with its emphasis on the treacheries of images fundamentally transformed not only Anglican ways of worship but also of seeing, hearing and remembering"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0521770181
9780521770187

OCLC:

(OCoLC)905666767

LCCN:

2014041692

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)