Voracious Idols and Violent Hands
Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg, and Basel

This 1995 book explores the acts of iconoclasm as the means to recover the participation of ordinary Christians in the Reformation.

Lee Palmer Wandel (Author)

9780521663434, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 13 September 1999

220 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.33 kg

' … this innovative and challenging study sheds much light on changing perceptions of the relations between the material and the spiritual, the laity and the clergy'. History

This 1995 book is an effort to recover the participation of ordinary Christians in the enterprise of Reformation through an exploration of the meaning of acts of iconoclasm: what they tell us about the role of images in Christianity and about ordinary people's theologies. Its focus, on ordinary Christians, distinguishes it from other studies of Reformation iconoclasm. Its concern, to recover their agency in Reformation and to discern their theology in acts, may be of interest to scholars in American history, anthropology, and religious studies. Its analysis of images in Christianity will be of interest to art historians.

Introduction
1. The images in the churches
2. Zurich
3. Strasbourg
4. Basel
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH], European history [HBJD]