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The radical Protestantism that led to the suppression of religious drama in England also by the early years of Queen Elizabeth I destroyed perhaps the majority of ecclesiastical art in the country. The essays in this book provide analysis of the intellectual and religious motivation as well as new historical information concerning this phase of iconoclasm.

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
The Libri Carolini: Antecedents of Reformation Iconoclasm by Anthony Ugolnik
The Anti-Visual Prejudice by Clifford Davidson
Iconoclasm in England: Official and Clandestine by Margaret Aston
"The Devil's Guts”: Allegations of Superstition and Fraud in Religious Drama and Art during the Reformation by Clifford Davidson
"No Sepulchre on Good Friday”: The Impact of the Reformation on the Easter Rites in England by Pamela Sheingorn
Broken Up or Restored Away: Iconoclasm in a Suffolk Parish by Ann Eljenholm NicholsIndex

Iconoclasm vs. Art and Drama

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      Publisher Medieval Institute Publications
      Published 1 July 1989
      ISBN-13 9780918720979
      978-0918720979
      ISBN-10 918720974

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The radical Protestantism that led to the suppression of religious drama in England also by the early years of Queen Elizabeth I destroyed perhaps the majority of ecclesiastical art in the country. The essays in this book provide analysis of the intellectual and religious motivation as well as new historical information concerning this phase of iconoclasm.

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations
      Preface
      The Libri Carolini: Antecedents of Reformation Iconoclasm by Anthony Ugolnik
      The Anti-Visual Prejudice by Clifford Davidson
      Iconoclasm in England: Official and Clandestine by Margaret Aston
      "The Devil's Guts”: Allegations of Superstition and Fraud in Religious Drama and Art during the Reformation by Clifford Davidson
      "No Sepulchre on Good Friday”: The Impact of the Reformation on the Easter Rites in England by Pamela Sheingorn
      Broken Up or Restored Away: Iconoclasm in a Suffolk Parish by Ann Eljenholm NicholsIndex

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