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Seeable Signs - The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments, 1350-1544 (Hardcover)
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Seeable Signs - The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments, 1350-1544 (Hardcover)
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Seven-sacrament art -- the representation of all seven sacraments
--first appeared in Europe as an occasional subject in the 14th
century, but by the middle of the 15th it had become widely
popular. In this interdisciplinary study, Ann Eljenholm Nichols
provides an analysis of the iconography of the sacraments. The book
begins with a comprehensive survey of all known continental work,
some of it never before published, but it focuses on English work.
Nichols argues that before 1450 there existed an international
iconography of the sacraments, but that thereafter English work
diverges so radically it is necessary to speak of a distinctive
insular iconography. The explanation for that difference, she
believes, is to be found in the peculiar religious climate created
by the Lollard rejection of the sacramental system. The need to
counter-attack, to make the sacred signs seeable, accounts for the
theological character of the font iconography. Her book makes an
important contribution to the cultural and social history of
medieval England. ANN ELJENHOLM NICHOLS is Professor, Department of
English, Winona State University. (East Anglia) Seven-sacrament art
-- the representation of all seven sacraments --firstappeared in
Europe as an occasional subject in the 14th century, but by the
middle of the 15th it had become widely popular. In this
interdisciplinary study Ann Eljenholm Nichols provides an analysis
of the iconography of the sacraments, focusing in particular on the
imaged baptismal fonts in East Anglia, the single best corpus of
extant seven-sacrament art. Nichols argues that after 1450 English
work diverges radically from the international iconography of the
sacraments; the explanation for this distinctive insular tradition,
she believes, is to be found in the peculiar religious climate
created by the Lollard rejection of the sacramental system, a
rejection vigorously pursued in East Anglia. Her careful use of
literary evidence --theological, didactic and liturgical --to illu
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