Kathleen Kamerick.

Kathleen Kamerick. Popular Piety and Art in the Later Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England 1350-1500 (The recent Middle Ages.) New York: Palgrave. 2002 Pp xi, 292 $6500 ISBN 0-312-29312-7

single of the consequences of the sixteenth-century Reformation for later Protestant cultivation has been an enduring scepticism, occasionally manifested as outright hostility, with regard to images. The Protestant relationship to the understanding of sight has at all times been fraught with paradox, not least in our admit intensely visual, age. But the history of rejection helps to explain,

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