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Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England

Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England :Textuality and the Visual Image

Format : Hardback
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Editors : Jeremy Dimmick | James Simpson | Nicolette Zeeman
ISBN : 9780198187592
Publication Year : 2002
Language : English

The pressure to destroy images was not an exclusively sixteenth-century phenomenon. The late medieval period witnessed both religious and secular conflicts over images. The essays in this book, each by an outstanding scholar, consider issues of central concern - literary, political, and art-historical - that arise from image making and breaking.