Overview
This work offers a detailed analysis of Puritan iconoclasm in England during the 1640s, looking at the reasons for the resurgence of image-breaking a hundred years after the break with Rome, and the extent of the phenomenon. Initially a reaction to the emphasis on ceremony and the 'beauty of holiness' under Archbishop Laud, the attack on 'innovations', such as communion rails, images and stained glass windows, developed into a major campaign driven forward by the Long Parliament as part of its religious reformation. Increasingly radical legislation targeted not just 'new popery', but pre-Reformation survivals and a wide range of objects (including some which had been acceptable to the Elizabethan and Jacobean Church). The book makes a detailed survey of parliament's legislation against images, considering the question of how and how far this legislation was enforced generally, with specific case studies looking at the impact of the iconoclastic reformation in London, in the cathedrals and at the universities. Parallel to this official movement was an unofficial one undertaken by Parliamentary soldiers, whose violent destructiveness became notorious. The significance of this spontaneous action and the importance of the anti-Catholic and anti-Episcopal feelings that it represented are also examined. Shortlisted for Historians of British Art Book Prize for 2003 Dr JULIE SPRAGGON is at the Institute for Historical Research, University of London.
Full Product Details
Author: Julie Spraggon
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint: The Boydell Press
Edition: 2004. Corr. 2nd Printing ed.
Volume: v. 6
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.666kg
ISBN: 9780851158952
ISBN 10: 0851158951
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 24 April 2003
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
A balanced, well-written and thoroughly researched account of an important element of the Puritan campaign to reform religious life in revolutionary England.... A very good book.... A comprehensive and authoritative account...which will prove very valuable. HISTORY A welcome addition....An admirably full account of the legislative programme of progressive iconoclasm of the 1640s and the ways in which it was implemented.... There is much to learn and reflect on in this ably researched book. * ECCLESIOLOGY TODAY *
A balanced, well-written and thoroughly researched account of an important element of the Puritan campaign to reform religious life in revolutionary England... A very good book... A comprehensive and authoritative account...which will prove very valuable. HISTORY A welcome addition...An admirably full account of the legislative programme of progressive iconoclasm of the 1640s and the ways in which it was implemented... There is much to learn and reflect on in this ably researched book. ECCLESIOLOGY TODAY
Author Information
Dr JULILE SPRAGGON is at the Institute for Historical Research, University of London.
