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Broken idols of the English Reformation
- Title
- Broken idols of the English Reformation / Margaret Aston.
- Author
- Aston, Margaret
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- ©2016
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 16-1162 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 1,109 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- 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.
- Subjects
- Offenses against religion
- Idols and images
- Christianity > Social aspects
- Religious articles
- Social change
- Iconoclasm
- England
- Social conditions
- Iconoclasm > England > 16th century
- History
- England > Religion > 16th century
- Offenses against religion > England > History > 16th century
- Idols and images > England > History > 16th century
- Religion
- England > Social conditions > 16th century
- 1500-1599
- Christianity > Social aspects > England > History > 16th century
- Religious articles > England > History > 16th century
- Reformation > England
- Social change > England > History > 16th century
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFF 16-1162
- ISBN
- 9780521770187
- 0521770181
- LCCN
- 2014041692
- OCLC
- 905666767
- Author
- Aston, Margaret, author.
- Title
- Broken idols of the English Reformation / Margaret Aston.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1500-1599
- Research Call Number
- JFF 16-1162