The destruction of images in the medieval and early modern world: Jews, Muslims, Protestants and Catholics in Iberia
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In this paper, Prof Borja Franco presents the main written and visual sources that captured trials for iconoclastic behaviour in medieval and early modern Iberia. He shall explore the reasons for these actions and their political and religious repercussions. A comparative study of the various socio-religious groups reveals that the theological discourse behind each iconoclastic action varied with each case study. Furthermore, it will be shown that iconoclastic attitudes were not the exclusive territory of ‘heretics’ or ‘infidels’ and that even Catholics were persecuted for their hostile attitudes to images.
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Luciana Martins
- School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
- School of Historical Studies
- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
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- ARTS: School
- Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS)
- ARTS: Cultures and Languages
- ARTS: History of Art
- Birkbeck Graduate Research School (BGRS)