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Author Davis, David J. (David Jonathan), author.

Title Seeing faith, printing pictures : religious identity during the English Reformation / by David J. Davis
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages)
Series Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; v. 25. The handpress world ; volume 19
Library of the written word ; v. 25.
Library of the written word. Handpress world ; v. 19.
Contents Seeing Faith, Printing Pictures: Religious Identity during the English Reformation; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations ; Acknowledgements ; List of Abbreviations ; Introduction: Images and Early Modern Religious Identity ; Religious Identity and the English Reformation(s) ; Studying Early Modern Printed Images
Seeing Faith, Reading Images Sources and Chapters ; 1. Material Religion: The Image in Early Modern Print ; The Public Sphere and Commodification ; Censorship and Religious Identity ; English Printed Images: A European Tradition ; Moving Images in the Marketplace ; Conclusion
2. Printed Images and the Reformation in England Iconoclasm and Protestant Adiaphora ; Reformed Theology and Boundaries of Acceptability ; Theodore Beze and Peter Martyr Vermigli ; William Perkins ; The Catholic Opposition ; Translation and Mistranslation ; Protestant Hypocrisy
Conclusion 3. Christ, the Virgin, and the Catholic Tradition of Printed Images ; Catholic Primers and English Protestantism ; Catholic Printers in Reformation England ; Images of the Virgin ; Images of Christ and the Catholic Community ; Conclusion
4. Representations of Christ: Reforming the Imitatio Christi Protestants and the God-Man ; From Corpus Christi to Christ Displayed ; Protestant Identity and the Imitatio Christi ; The Suffering Christ: Meditation and Imitation ; Seeing the End: Resurrection and Judgment ; Conclusion
Summary This book offers a unique analysis of visual religion in Reformation England as seen in its religious printed images. Challenging traditional notions of an iconoclastic Reformation, it offers a thorough analysis of the widespread body of printed images and the ways the images gave shape to the religious culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Reformation and art -- England
Christian literature, English -- Illustrations
Illustration of books -- England
Identification (Religion)
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
Christian literature, English
Identification (Religion)
Illustration of books
Reformation and art
England
Genre/Form Illustrated works
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012036679
ISBN 9789004236028
9004236023