Seeing faith, printing pictures : religious identity during the English Reformation / / by David J. Davis.

• Superior document: Library of the written word, v. 25. The handpress world ; v. 19
• Author: Davis, David J.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 19.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Scholarship on religious printed images during the English Reformation (1535-1603) has generally focused on a few illustrated works and has portrayed this period in England as a predominantly non-visual religious culture. The combination of iconoclasm and Calvinist doctrine have led to a misunderstanding as to the unique ways that English Protestants used religious printed images. Building on recent work in the history of the book and print studies, this book analyzes the widespread body of religious illustration, such as images of God the Father and Christ, in Reformation England, assessing what religious beliefs they communicated and how their use evolved during the period. The result is a unique analysis of how the Reformation in England both destroyed certain aspects of traditional imagery as well as embraced and reformulated others into expressions of its own character and identity.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Images and Early Modern Religious Identity -- Material Religion: The Image in Early Modern Print -- Printed Images and the Reformation in England -- Christ, the Virgin, and the Catholic Tradition of Printed Images -- Representations of Christ: Reforming the Imitatio Christi -- Seeing God: Protestant Visions of the Father -- Reforming Deity: Symbolic Pictures of God -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Select Bibliography -- Index.