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Seeing Faith, Printing Pictures: Religious Identity during the English Reformation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

AvDavid J. Davis,David J. Davis,David Davis,David J Davis

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Scholarship on religious printed images during the English Reformation (1535-1603) has generally focused on a few illustrated works and has portrayed this period in England as a predominantly non-visual religious culture. The combination of iconoclasm and Calvinist doctrine have led to a misunderstanding as to the unique ways that English Protestants used religious printed images. Building on recent work in the history of the book and print studies, this book analyzes the widespread body of religious illustration, such as images of God the Father and Christ, in Reformation England, assessing what religious beliefs they communicated and how their use evolved during the period. The result is a unique analysis of how the Reformation in England both destroyed certain aspects of traditional imagery as well as embraced and reformulated others into expressions of its own character and identity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2013-02-15
Mått155 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt561 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLibrary of the Written Word - The Handpress World
Antal sidor244
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004236011

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Images and Early Modern Religious IdentityReligious Identity and the English Reformation(s)Studying Early Modern Printed ImagesSeeing Faith, Reading ImagesSources and ChaptersChapter 1: Material Religion: The Image in Early Modern PrintThe Public Sphere and CommodificationCensorship and Religious IdentityEnglish Printed Images: A European TraditionMoving Images in the MarketplaceConclusionChapter 2: Printed Images and the Reformation in EnglandIconoclasm and Protestant AdiaphoraReformed Theology and Boundaries of AcceptabilityTheodore Beze and Peter Martyr VermigliWilliam PerkinsThe Catholic OppositionTranslation and MistranslationsProtestant HypocrisyConclusionChapter 3: Christ, the Virgin, and the Catholic Tradition of Printed ImagesCatholic Primers and English ProtestantismCatholic Printers in Reformation EnglandImages of the VirginImages of Christ and the Catholic CommunityConclusionChapter 4: Representations of Christ: Reforming the Imitatio ChristiProtestants and the God-ManFrom Corpus Christi to Christ DisplayedProtestant Identity and the Imitatio ChristiThe Suffering Christ: Meditation and ImitationSeeing the End: Resurrection and JudgmentConclusionChapter 5: Seeing God: Protestant Visions of the FatherTraditional Images and Recycled PrintsGod in Illustrated BiblesThe Exception of Divine VisionsGod at CreationConclusionChapter 6: Reforming the Deity: Symbolic Pictures of GodContinuity and ChangeA Reformed Icon?: Symbols of GodThe Devotional ImageConclusionConclusionAppendixBibliography

“Seeing Faith … presents a well-constructed and well-illustrated survey which draws on a wide range of contemporary sources. It … successfully probes a sizeable subject which should be enjoyed by readers in a number of fields.” Margaret Aston. In: Print Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 3 (2015), pp. 315-317.“Davis has written an excellent book, dealing with a subject full of pitfalls with care and obvious academic integrity.”Andrew A. Chibi, England. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 44, No. 4 (2013), pp. 1078-1080."this book brings together important evidence that the desire for visual images continued into the Reformation." James A. Knapp, Loyola University Chicago. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Spring 2014), pp. 300-301.“The monograph is well written and throws numerous shafts of light on specific cases and on wider issues such as the debate on ‘iconophobia’.” Ian Green, University of Edinburgh. In: Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 100, No. 1 (2014), pp. 148-149.