| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 254 pages). |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 81
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Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 81.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-249) and index. |
| Contents |
Lollard iconographies -- Hoccleve's spectacles -- Lydgate's refigurations of the image -- Capgrave's material memorials -- Pecock's libri laicorum. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
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Iconoclasm in literature.
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Idols and images in literature.
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Visual perception in literature.
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Iconoclasm -- England -- To 1500.
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Religion and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.
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| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gayk, Shannon Noelle. Image, text, and religious reform in fifteenth-century England. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521190800 (DLC) 2010031371 (OCoLC)607985519 |
| ISBN |
9780511918568 (electronic bk.) |
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0511918569 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511916601 (electronic bk.) |
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0511916604 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511659058 (electronic bk.) |
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0511659059 (electronic bk.) |
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9780521190800 |
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0521190800 |
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