Popular Piety and Art in the Later Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England 1350-1500.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

Kathleen Kamerick. Popular Piety and Art in the Later Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England 1350-1500. (The New Middle Ages.) New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xi, 292. $65.00. ISBN 0-312-29312-7.

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

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