Faire Semblants and Scandalous Worship: Iconophobia and the English Renaissance

The iconophobic use of material destruction to affirm God's existence and the immortality of cherished loved ones made the metaphor of iconoclasm a powerful engine for transforming human affection into acts of organized violence. This fundamentalist rhetoric, and the language of toleration that developed in response to it, are the subjects of this dissertation, which considers England's iconophobic renaissance in the context of its origins in mid sixteenth-century religious skepticism, and with attention to its role in shaping attitudes towards toleration and revolution in seventeenth-century Britain.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Dahlquist, Mark

Contributors dc:contributor

• Guibbory, Achsah

• Literature, English

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3314755

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/81437