Broken Idols of the English Reformation

Broken Idols of the English Reformation
Author: Margaret Aston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1994
Release: 2015-11-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316060470

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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 bells, organs and stained glass windows. She explores the motivations of those who smashed images of the crucifixion in stained glass windows and who pulled down crosses and defaced symbols of the Trinity. She shows that destruction was part of a methodology of religious revolution designed to change people as well as places and to forge in the long term new generations of new believers. Beyond blanked walls and whited windows were beliefs and minds impregnated by new modes of religious learning. Idol-breaking with its emphasis on the treacheries of images fundamentally transformed not only Anglican ways of worship but also of seeing, hearing and remembering.

Memory and the English Reformation

Memory and the English Reformation
Author: Alexandra Walsham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2020-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108829996

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Recasts the Reformation as a battleground over memory, in which new identities were formed through acts of commemoration, invention and repression.

England's Iconoclasts: Laws against images

England's Iconoclasts: Laws against images
Author: Margaret Aston
Publisher:
Total Pages: 576
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN:

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Rejection of idolatry during the Reformation had dramatic and far-reaching effects on English society: the removal of color and ornament from churches, the alteration of divine and secular laws, and the destruction of an enormous amount of religious art. This study looks at the changes in sixteenth-century theology that brought about iconoclasm and offers new insight into a central aspect of the Reformation.

Lollards in the English Reformation

Lollards in the English Reformation
Author: Susan Royal
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2020-01-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1526128829

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This book examines the afterlife of the lollard movement, demonstrating how it was shaped and used by evangelicals and seventeenth-century Protestants. It focuses on the work of John Foxe, whose influential Acts and Monuments (1563) reoriented the lollards from heretics and traitors to martyrs and model subjects, portraying them as Protestants’ ideological forebears. It is a scholarly mainstay that Foxe edited radical lollard views to bring them in line with a mainstream monarchical church. But this book offers a strong corrective to the argument, revealing that the subversive material present in Foxe’s text allowed seventeenth-century religious radicals to appropriate the lollards as historical validation of their own theological and political positions. The book argues that the same lollards who were used to strengthen the English church in the sixteenth century would play a role in its fragmentation in the seventeenth.

Living Fountains Or Broken Cisterns

Living Fountains Or Broken Cisterns
Author: E. A. Sutherland
Publisher: TEACH Services, Inc.
Total Pages: 4
Release: 1995
Genre: Church and education
ISBN: 1572580240

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Originally published: Battle Creek, Mich.: Review and Herald Pub. Co., 1900.

The Reformation of Images

The Reformation of Images
Author: John Phillips
Publisher:
Total Pages: 227
Release: 1973
Genre: England, History, 16th century
ISBN:

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Memory and the English Reformation

Memory and the English Reformation
Author: Alexandra Walsham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2020-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108901476

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The dramatic religious revolutions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries involved a battle over social memory. On one side, the Reformation repudiated key aspects of medieval commemorative culture; on the other, traditional religion claimed that Protestantism was a religion without memory. This volume shows how religious memory was sometimes attacked and extinguished, while at other times rehabilitated in a modified guise. It investigates how new modes of memorialisation were embodied in texts, material objects, images, physical buildings, rituals, and bodily gestures. Attentive to the roles played by denial, amnesia, and fabrication, it also considers the retrospective processes by which the English Reformation became identified as an historic event. Examining dissident as well as official versions of this story, this richly illustrated, interdisciplinary collection traces how memory of the religious revolution evolved in the two centuries following the Henrician schism, and how the Reformation embedded itself in the early modern cultural imagination.

Remembering the Reformation

Remembering the Reformation
Author: Alexandra Walsham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2020-06-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429619928

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This stimulating volume explores how the memory of the Reformation has been remembered, forgotten, contested, and reinvented between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries. Remembering the Reformation traces how a complex, protracted, and unpredictable process came to be perceived, recorded, and commemorated as a transformative event. Exploring both local and global patterns of memory, the contributors examine the ways in which the Reformation embedded itself in the historical imagination and analyse the enduring, unstable, and divided legacies that it engendered. The book also underlines how modern scholarship is indebted to processes of memory-making initiated in the early modern period and challenges the conventional models of periodisation that the Reformation itself helped to create. This collection of essays offers an expansive examination and theoretically engaged discussion of concepts and practices of memory and Reformation. This volume is ideal for upper level undergraduates and postgraduates studying the Reformation, Early Modern Religious History, Early Modern European History, and Early Modern Literature.

Reformation and Reaction in Tudor Cambridge

Reformation and Reaction in Tudor Cambridge
Author: H. C. Porter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2015-10-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1107553911

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Originally published in 1958, this book provides a comprehensive study of Cambridge University during the Reformation and the broader impact of religious reform in Tudor England. Life within the University is presented as a lens through which the broader alliances and conflicts of the Tudor age can be viewed. As stated in the introduction, 'The story is that of the Reformation in England, told from a certain angle'. The text is divided into three main sections: 'Humanists, Reformers and Exiles'; 'The Puritans and Authority'; and 'The Universe of Grace'. A detailed bibliography is also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Tudor England, the Reformation and the history of Cambridge.