RT Book
T1 Image, text, and religious reform in fifteenth-century England
T2 Cambridge studies in medieval literature
JF Cambridge studies in medieval literature
A1 Gayk, Shannon
LA English
PP Cambridge u.a.
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2010
ED 1. publ.
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1607836637
AB "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"--
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN PR275.I3
SN 0521190800
SN 9780521190800
K1 English literature : Middle English, 1100-1500 : History and criticism
K1 Iconoclasm in literature
K1 Idols and images in literature
K1 Visual perception in literature
K1 Iconoclasm : England : To 1500
K1 Religion and literature : England : History : To 1500
K1 Christian art and symbolism : England : Medieval, 500-1500