Fallen idols, broken noses: Defacement and memory after the Reformation

• Published in: Memory studies Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 21 - 35
• Main Author: Schwyzer, Philip
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.01.2018
• Subjects: Cathedrals; iconoclasm; Edmund Spenser; reformation; poetry; William Shakespeare

The Henrician and Edwardian Reformations of the 1530s and 1540s were marked by successive waves of iconoclasm in English churches and cathedrals. Statues, screens, wall paintings, and windows were among the idols targeted. While some objects and artworks were destroyed or effaced entirely, others re...