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Article: Voracious idols and violent hands: iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg and Basel.
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- Labour/Le Travail
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- March 22, 1997
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Lee Palmer Wandel Voracious Idols and Violent Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg and Basel (Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press 1995).
ICONOCLASM, the destruction of religious images, is one of the areas where the popular energies behind the 16th-century Reformation become most evident. Iconoclasm was, in part, supported by the teachings of Reformation theologians, who wanted the images removed, but only in an orderly and legal manner. Ultimately iconoclasm was legitimized, with evident reluctance, by governing powers that were more concerned with the maintenance of civil order than with any of the disputed notions of ...
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