UID:
almahu_9947413706202882
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 318 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781846151408 (ebook)
Content:
This work offers a detailed analysis of Puritan iconoclasm in England during the 1640s, looking at the reasons for the resurgence of image-breaking a hundred years after the break with Rome, and the extent of the phenomenon. Initially a reaction to the emphasis on ceremony and the 'beauty of holiness' under Archbishop Laud, the attack on 'innovations', such as communion rails, images and stained glass windows, developed into a major campaign driven forward by the Long Parliament as part of its religious reformation. Increasingly radical legislation targeted not just 'new popery', but pre-Reformation survivals and a wide range of objects (including some which had been acceptable to the Elizabethan and Jacobean Church). The book makes a detailed survey of parliament's legislation against images, considering the question of how and how far this legislation was enforced generally, with specific case studies looking at the impact of the iconoclastic reformation in London, in the cathedrals and at the universities. Parallel to this official movement was an unofficial one undertaken by Parliamentary soldiers, whose violent destructiveness became notorious. The significance of this spontaneous action and the importance of the anti-Catholic and anti-Episcopal feelings that it represented are also examined. Shortlisted for Historians of British Art Book Prize for 2003. Dr JULIE SPRAGGON is at the Institute for Historical Research, University of London.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Attitudes to Images from the Reformation to the Meeting of the Long Parliament c.1536-1640 --
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Argument for Reform: the Literature of Iconoclasm --
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Official Iconoclasm: the Long Parliament and the Reformation of Images --
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Enforcement of Iconoclastic Legislation in the Localities --
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Response in London --
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Reformation of the Cathedrals --
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Iconoclasm at the Universities --
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Parliamentary Legislation against Monuments of Superstition and Idolatry --
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Anti-Stuart Iconoclasm --
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William Dowsing's Commissions.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780851158952
Language:
English
URL:
http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781846151408/type/BOOK
