Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England, 1350-1500
Hilmo, Maidie, The Catholic Historical Review
Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England, 1350-1500. By Kathleen Kamerick. [The New Middle Ages, Series No. 27.] (New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xi, 292. $89.95.)
Kathleen Kamerick refers to the process of working on this project as a "search for understanding holy images."The result is a kind of archaeological excavation of late medieval religious and social culture that was distinguished by its multifaceted approach to images.
Her first two chapters deal with both sides of the image controversies of this period in English history. The LoEards charged that images were prohibited in the First Commandment as idolatrous and that …
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Article title: Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England, 1350-1500.
Contributors: Hilmo, Maidie - Author.
Journal title: The Catholic Historical Review.
Volume: 93.
Issue: 1
Publication date: January 2007.
Page number: 153+.
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