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Broken Idols of the English Reformation

[Hardback]

by Margaret Aston

    • Author

      Margaret Aston

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Cambridge University Press

    • Published

      September 2015

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      Broken Idols of the English Reformation

      Today's Price £129.13



      Product Description

      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.

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      • Author

        Margaret Aston

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Cambridge University Press

      • Published

        September 2015

      • Weight

        1980g

      • Page Count

        1104

      • Dimensions

        170 x 245 x 59 mm

      • ISBN

        9780521770187

      • ISBN-10

        0521770181

      • Eden Code

        4378253

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      • Author/Creator: Margaret Aston

      • ISBN: 9780521770187

      • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

      • Release Date: September 2015

      • Weight: 1980g

      • Dimensions: 170 x 245 x 59 mm

      • Eden Code: 4378253


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