RT Book
T1 Broken idols of the English Reformation
A1 Aston, Margaret 1932-2014
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/883308762
AB 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.
AB 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
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Dec 2015)
CN BR377
SN 9781139032834
K1 Reformation : England.
K1 Iconoclasm : England, 16th century.
K1 Idols and images : England : History, 16th century.
K1 Religious articles : England : History, 16th century.
K1 Offenses against religion : England : History, 16th century.
K1 Social Change : England : History, 16th century.
K1 Christianity : Social aspects : England : History, 16th century.
K1 Idols and images : England : History : 16th century
K1 Religious articles : England : History : 16th century
K1 Offenses against religion : England : History : 16th century
K1 Social Change : England : History : 16th century
K1 Christianity : Social aspects : England : History : 16th century
K1 Iconoclasm : England : 16th century
K1 Reformation : England
K1 Reformation ; England
K1 Iconoclasm ; England ; 16th century
K1 Idols and images ; England ; History ; 16th century
K1 Religious articles ; England ; History ; 16th century
K1 Offenses against religion ; England ; History ; 16th century
K1 Social change ; England ; History ; 16th century
K1 Christianity ; Social aspects ; England ; History ; 16th century
K1 England ; Social conditions ; 16th century
K1 England ; Religion ; 16th century
K1 England : Social conditions, 16th century.
K1 England : Religion, 16th century.
K1 England : Social conditions : 16th century
K1 England : Religion : 16th century
DO 10.1017/CBO9781139032834