Seeing Faith, Printing Pictures: Religious Identity during the English Reformation
Biographical note
David J. Davis, Ph.D. (2009) in History, University of Exeter, is Assistant Professor in History at Houston Baptist University. He has published several articles and reviews on the English Reformation and early modern print culture.
Readership
All those interested in early modern history, the Reformation in Britain, visual culture, and the history of the book, as well as literary scholars and others interested in identity studies.
Table of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Images and Early Modern Religious Identity
Religious Identity and the English Reformation(s)
Studying Early Modern Printed Images
Seeing Faith, Reading Images
Sources and Chapters
Chapter 1: Material Religion: The Image in Early Modern Print
The Public Sphere and Commodification
Censorship and Religious Identity
English Printed Images: A European Tradition
Moving Images in the Marketplace
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Printed Images and the Reformation in England
Iconoclasm and Protestant Adiaphora
Reformed Theology and Boundaries of Acceptability
Theodore Beze and Peter Martyr Vermigli
William Perkins
The Catholic Opposition
Translation and Mistranslations
Protestant Hypocrisy
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Christ, the Virgin, and the Catholic Tradition of Printed Images
Catholic Primers and English Protestantism
Catholic Printers in Reformation England
Images of the Virgin
Images of Christ and the Catholic Community
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Representations of Christ: Reforming the Imitatio Christi
Protestants and the God-Man
From Corpus Christi to Christ Displayed
Protestant Identity and the Imitatio Christi
The Suffering Christ: Meditation and Imitation
Seeing the End: Resurrection and Judgment
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Seeing God: Protestant Visions of the Father
Traditional Images and Recycled Prints
God in Illustrated Bibles
The Exception of Divine Visions
God at Creation
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Reforming the Deity: Symbolic Pictures of God
Continuity and Change
A Reformed Icon?: Symbols of God
The Devotional Image
Conclusion
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Images and Early Modern Religious Identity
Religious Identity and the English Reformation(s)
Studying Early Modern Printed Images
Seeing Faith, Reading Images
Sources and Chapters
Chapter 1: Material Religion: The Image in Early Modern Print
The Public Sphere and Commodification
Censorship and Religious Identity
English Printed Images: A European Tradition
Moving Images in the Marketplace
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Printed Images and the Reformation in England
Iconoclasm and Protestant Adiaphora
Reformed Theology and Boundaries of Acceptability
Theodore Beze and Peter Martyr Vermigli
William Perkins
The Catholic Opposition
Translation and Mistranslations
Protestant Hypocrisy
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Christ, the Virgin, and the Catholic Tradition of Printed Images
Catholic Primers and English Protestantism
Catholic Printers in Reformation England
Images of the Virgin
Images of Christ and the Catholic Community
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Representations of Christ: Reforming the Imitatio Christi
Protestants and the God-Man
From Corpus Christi to Christ Displayed
Protestant Identity and the Imitatio Christi
The Suffering Christ: Meditation and Imitation
Seeing the End: Resurrection and Judgment
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Seeing God: Protestant Visions of the Father
Traditional Images and Recycled Prints
God in Illustrated Bibles
The Exception of Divine Visions
God at Creation
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Reforming the Deity: Symbolic Pictures of God
Continuity and Change
A Reformed Icon?: Symbols of God
The Devotional Image
Conclusion
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
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