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Article: Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments, 1350-1544.
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- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- March 22, 1996
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Ann Eljenholm Nichols, 1350-1544 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1994). xvii + 412 pp.; 5 figures; 97 plates. ISBN 0-85115-342-9. 49.50[pounds]
This study is an important contribution to our understanding of the popular practice of religion in late medieval England. Ann Eljenholm Nichols's exhaustively researched, handsomely produced, if somewhat densely argued, book considers the history of medieval sacramental art on the Continent and discusses English windows, but her primary concentration is on the seven-sacrament fonts of East Anglia.
The representation of all seven sacraments in a variety of media begins a `meteoric rise in popularity' from the middle of ...