Faire Semblants and Scandalous Worship: Iconophobia and the English Renaissance
Dahlquist, Mark
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Description
Title
Faire Semblants and Scandalous Worship: Iconophobia and the English Renaissance
Author(s)
Dahlquist, Mark
Issue Date
2008
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Guibbory, Achsah
Department of Study
English
Discipline
English
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Literature, English
Language
eng
Abstract
The iconophobic use of material destruction to affirm God's existence and the immortality of cherished loved ones made the metaphor of iconoclasm a powerful engine for transforming human affection into acts of organized violence. This fundamentalist rhetoric, and the language of toleration that developed in response to it, are the subjects of this dissertation, which considers England's iconophobic renaissance in the context of its origins in mid sixteenth-century religious skepticism, and with attention to its role in shaping attitudes towards toleration and revolution in seventeenth-century Britain.
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