The devotional image in later medieval England

TY - CHAP

T1 - The devotional image in later medieval England

AU - Giles, Katherine Fleur

AU - McClain, Aleksandra Noel

PY - 2018/2/7

Y1 - 2018/2/7

N2 - This article reviews the surviving material and documentary evidence for the patronage, meaning, use and destruction of devotional images in the late medieval English parish church. The article provides a critical appraisal of medieval archaeology's potential to contribute to wider interdisciplinary scholarship on devotional and commemorative practices, the rise of a literate and devotionally-engaged laity, and the impact of early modern iconoclasm on the devotional topography of the late medieval parish church.

AB - This article reviews the surviving material and documentary evidence for the patronage, meaning, use and destruction of devotional images in the late medieval English parish church. The article provides a critical appraisal of medieval archaeology's potential to contribute to wider interdisciplinary scholarship on devotional and commemorative practices, the rise of a literate and devotionally-engaged laity, and the impact of early modern iconoclasm on the devotional topography of the late medieval parish church.

KW - Devotion

KW - Image

KW - MEDIEVAL BRITAIN

UR - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-later-medieval-archaeology-in-britain-9780198744719?cc=gb&lang=en&

U2 - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198744719.013.28

DO - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198744719.013.28

M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)

SN - 9780198744719

SP - 658

EP - 680

BT - Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain

A2 - Gerrard, Christopher

A2 - Gutierrez, Alejandra

PB - Oxford University Press

CY - Oxford

ER -