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Article: Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England: Textuality and the Visual Image.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2004
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Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England: Textuality and the Visual Image. Ed. by JEREMY DIMMICK, JAMES SIMPSON, and NICOLETTE ZEEMAN. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. xiii+250 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-818759-9.
This collection of eleven essays contains a scatter of riches. The volume's title is more a sop to the conventions of containment than a guide to what actually lies between its covers. Some of its chapters originated as papers presented at a conference on 'Images, Iconoclasm, and Idolatry' held in Cambridge in 1999, and it sees itself as furthering the work of Margaret Aston, England's Iconoclasts (Oxford: ...