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Image, text, and religious reform in fifteenth-century England /
"Focusing on the period between the Wycliffite critique of images and Reformation iconoclasm, Shannon Gayk investigates the sometimes complementary and sometimes fraught relationship between vernacular devotional writing and the religious image. She examines how a set of fifteenth-century write...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;
81. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Focusing on the period between the Wycliffite critique of images and Reformation iconoclasm, Shannon Gayk investigates the sometimes complementary and sometimes fraught relationship between vernacular devotional writing and the religious image. She examines how a set of fifteenth-century writers, including Lollard authors, John Lydgate, Thomas Hoccleve, John Capgrave, and Reginald Pecock, translated complex clerical debates about the pedagogical and spiritual efficacy of images and texts into vernacular settings and literary forms. These authors found vernacular discourse to be a powerful medium for explaining and reforming contemporary understandings of visual experience. In its survey of the function of literary images and imagination, the epistemology of vision, the semiotics of idols, and the authority of written texts, this study reveals a fifteenth century that was as much an age of religious and literary exploration, experimentation, and reform as it was an age of regulation"--Provided by publisher |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 254 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-249) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511918568 0511918569 9780511916601 0511916604 9780511659058 0511659059 9781107628656 1107628652 1107213797 9781107213791 0511849249 9780511849244 1282818198 9781282818194 9786612818196 6612818190 0511917589 9780511917585 0511914792 9780511914799 0511912994 9780511912993 |