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Broken idols of the English Reformation / Margaret Aston.

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"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...

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Main Author: Aston, Margaret (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Reformation > England.
Iconoclasm > England > 16th century.
Idols and images > England > History > 16th century.
Religious articles > England > History > 16th century.
Offenses against religion > England > History > 16th century.
Social change > England > History > 16th century.
Christianity > Social aspects > England > History > 16th century.
England > Social conditions > 16th century.
England > Religion > 16th century.
Christianity > Social aspects.
Iconoclasm.
Idols and images.
Offenses against religion.
Reformation.
Religion.
Religious articles.
Social change.
Social conditions.
England.
History.
Table of 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.

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