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Idol, defend yourself! The cult of images and iconoclastic violence in the Middle Ages

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Idol, defend yourself! The cult of images and iconoclastic violence in the Middle Ages
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  • The story of why revolutions, wars and political conflicts are so often accompanied by attacks on monuments to rulers and other images.



  • Explains why, in the Middle Ages, veneration of shrines did not preclude "violence" against them, and why higher powers tried to force a miracle.



    • Will explain how the owners of manuscripts and early printed books used them as amulets, and why so many depictions left the demon figures without faces or eyes.

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    Since ancient times, people not only create images or worship them, but also attack them: smashing, burning, sometimes purposely mutilated - decapitated or blinded. Most often violence is directed at images of (alien) gods and (deposed) rulers. It accompanies most religious and political revolutions, as well as many armed conflicts, but it is also embedded in everyday life, in the relationships one builds with the invisible world, power, and other people. This book focuses on the various motivations that drove the attack on visual images in Europe of the long Middle Ages. From revenge against demons and sinners drawn on manuscript sheets to the beating of statues of saints to force their help. From the iconoclastic war waged by Protestant iconoclasts against Catholic idols to the moral censorship that rushed to cover up or hide images of naked bodies from view.
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