Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England

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  • Author : Jeremy Dimmick
  • Release Date : 2002-02-14
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 264
  • ISBN 13 : 0191541966
  • File Size : 18,18 MB
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Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England by Jeremy Dimmick PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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