Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England - Textuality and the Visual Image

Zusatztext This collection of essays presents itself in a very promising way. Its topics are both currently fashionable and undeniably central to late medieval England. Its contributors include an impressive gathering of eminent medievalists. Its publisher has given the volume an elegant design. Klappentext This book capitalizes on brilliant recent work on sixteenth-century iconoclasm to extend the study of images, both their making and their breaking, into an earlier period and wider discursive territories. The essays that make up this volume were commissioned from a range of outstanding late medievalists in a variety of disciplines: literature, art history, Biblical studies, and intellectual history. Zusammenfassung The pressure to destroy images was not an exclusively sixteenth-century phenomenon. The late medieval period witnessed both religious and secular conflicts over images. The essays in this book, each by an outstanding scholar, consider issues of central concern - literary, political, and art-historical - that arise from image making and breaking.

Riassunto

The pressure to destroy images was not an exclusively sixteenth-century phenomenon. The late medieval period witnessed both religious and secular conflicts over images. The essays in this book, each by an outstanding scholar, consider issues of central concern - literary, political, and art-historical - that arise from image making and breaking.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jeremy Dimmick, Jeremy Zeeman Dimmick
• Con la collaborazione di: Jeremy Dimmick (Editore), Dimmick Jeremy (Editore), James Simpson (Editore), Nicolette Zeeman (Editore), Zeeman Nicolette (Editore)
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.03.2002
• EAN: 9780198187592
• ISBN: 978-0-19-818759-2
• Pagine: 264
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; England, History of Ideas, HISTORY / Social History, RELIGION / Christianity / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, RELIGION / Christianity / General, ART / European, Christianity, CE period up to c 1500, History of Religion, History of Art, British & Irish history, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Church history, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Medieval style, ART / History / European / Medieval