Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-244) and index.
Contents:
The rule of medieval imagination / James Simpson -- Making, mourning, and the love of idols / L.O. Aranya Fradenburg -- The idol of the text / Nicolette Zeeman -- The sacrament of the altar in Piers plowman and the late medieval church in England / David Aers -- Langland's Ymaginatif: images and the limits of poetry / Ralph Hanna III -- 'Et que est huius ydoli materia? Tuipse': idols and images in Walter Hilton / Nicholas Watson -- Sophistic, spectrality, iconoclasm / Rita Copeland -- The vivacity of images: St Katherine, Knighton's lollards, and the breaking of idols / Sarah Stanbury -- The iconoclast's desire: Deguileville's idolatry in France and England / Michael Camille -- Writing and the 'poetics of spectacle': political epiphanies in The arrivall of Edward IV and some contemporary Lancastrian and Yorkist texts / Wendy Scase -- Iconoclasm and bibliophobia in the English reformations, 1521-1558 / Brian Cummings.
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