What is it about?
In this article, I describe several competing theories of vision in the late Middle Ages and why each of these may have led to a rise in idolatry and consequently to iconoclasm.
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Why is it important?
This article may help to explain one of the main factors in the Reformation, which was the iconoclastic response to perceived idolatry in the late medieval period in Europe.
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This page is a summary of: The extent to which the rise in the worship of images in the late Middle Ages was influenced by contemporary theories of vision, Scottish Journal of Theology, January 2007, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s003693060600264x.
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