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050 00 $aPR275.I3$bG39 2010
082 00 $a820.9/3823$222
100 1 $aGayk, Shannon Noelle.
245 10 $aImage, text, and religious reform in fifteenth-century England /$cShannon Gayk.
260 $aCambridge, UK ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$cc2010.
300 $aviii, 254 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aCambridge studies in medieval literature ;$v81
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 192-249) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Reformations of the image -- Lollard iconographies -- Thomas Hoccleve's spectacles -- John Lydgate's refigurations of the image -- John Capgrave's material memorials -- Ronald Pecock's libri laicorum -- Epilogue: Words for images.
520 $a"Focusing on the period between the Wycliffite critique of images and Reformation iconoclasm, Shannon Gayk investigates the sometimes complementary and sometimes fraught relationship between vernacular devotional writing and the religious image. She examines how a set of fifteenth-century writers, including Lollard authors, John Lydgate, Thomas Hoccleve, John Capgrave, and Reginald Pecock, translated complex clerical debates about the pedagogical and spiritual efficacy of images and texts into vernacular settings and literary forms. These authors found vernacular discourse to be a powerful medium for explaining and reforming contemporary understandings of visual experience. In its survey of the function of literary images and imagination, the epistemology of vision, the semiotics of idols, and the authority of written texts, this study reveals a fifteenth century that was as much an age of religious and literary exploration, experimentation, and reform as it was an age of regulation"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aIconoclasm in literature.
650 0 $aIdols and images in literature.
650 0 $aVisual perception in literature.
650 0 $aIconoclasm$zEngland$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aReligion and literature$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500.
830 0 $aCambridge studies in medieval literature ;$v81.
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