Idol, defend yourself! Image Cult and Iconoclastic Violence in the Middle Ages

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  • A story about why revolutions, wars and political conflicts are so often accompanied by an attack on the monuments of rulers and other images.
  • He will explain why in the Middle Ages the veneration of shrines did not exclude “violence” against them, and higher powers tried to force them to perform a miracle.
  • He will talk about how the owners of manuscripts and early printed books used them as amulets and why in so many images the figures of demons were left without faces or without eyes.

Since ancient times, people have not only created images or worshiped them, but also attacked them: they smash, burn, sometimes deliberately mutilate - decapitate or blind. Most often, violence falls on the images of (foreign) gods and (overthrown) 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 that a person builds with the invisible world, power and other people. This book is devoted to the various motives that prompted the attack on visual images in Europe of the long Middle Ages. From taking revenge on the demons and sinners drawn on the sheets of manuscripts, to beating the statues of saints to force them to help. From the iconoclastic war waged by iconoclastic Protestants against Catholic idols, to the moral censorship that hurried to cover up or hide images of naked bodies from view.

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Barcode: 9785001398172 SKU: 70163809 Categories: ,
Publication language: Russian

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