Article: Image and Devotion in Late Medieval England.(Book Review)

Image and Devotion in Late Medieval England Richard Marks Sutton Publishing viii + 344 pp 25 [pounds sterling] ISBN 075090802

ON THE EVE OF THE REFORMATION the churches of Catholic Christendom were aglow with eye-catching devotional images. In a not untypical English church--Marks focuses on Eaton Bray (Beds.)--there were well over a dozen such. In the larger and more richly endowed churches there were many more. Surprisingly, the role of images in English popular devotion has never been the focus of proper systematic study. In this absorbing new book, Richard Marks rescues the subject from this long neglect. He demonstrates beyond any doubt the centrality of ...

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