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Iconoclasm And Iconophilia In Othello, Catherine E. Winiarski

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In his book War Against the Idols, Carlos Eire argues that iconoclastic resistance to the Medieval Catholic Church began with the gentle scolding of Erasmus and ended as the "shibboleth" of radical Calvinism. The use of images in religious instruction and practice was one of the major points of dispute between Protestant reformers and Catholic counter-reformers. Iconoclasm was certainly not confined to radical Calvinism; Anglican reformers, especially those who had spent time in continental Europe as exiles (like John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury), quickly raised the issue in their country, which had its own unique history of religious reform. …

“Women Of The Wild Geese”: Irish Women, Exile, And Identity In Spain, 1596–1670, Andrea Knox

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Ireland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was subject to major invasion and settlement. Tudor foreign policy towards Ireland attempted to introduce an English model of government and, during the reign of Elizabeth I, attempts were made to introduce the Protestant religion. During the sixteenth century both England and Ireland were the regular focus of European Catholic plots. This led the Tudor monarchs to invade Ireland with a double agenda: to prevent European invasion, and to subdue a country over which it had always been difficult to exercise any influence. Henry VIII invaded Scotland and France in the 1540s, and …

Review Essay: Arthur Marotti, Ed. Catholicism And Anti-Catholicism In Early Modern English Texts, Eugene R. Cunnar

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Arthur Marotti, ed. Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. 266 pp.

Review Essay: Haynes, Alan. Invisible Power: The Elizabethan Secret Services, 1570-1603, F. Jeffrey Platt

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Haynes, Alan. Invisible Power: The Elizabethan Secret Services, 1570-1603. St Martin's Press, New York 1992. 1790 pp. $29.95.

Review Essay: Joseph Ratzinger, Eschatology: Death And Eternal Life, Vol. 9 Of Dogmatic Theology, Janine Marie Idziak

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Joseph Ratzinger, Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life, Vol. 9 of Dogmatic Theology, by Johann Auer and Joseph Ratzinger, trans. Michael Waldstein, Catholic University of America Press, 1988.

Review Essay: A. F. Allison And D. M. Rogers, The Contemporary Printed Literature Of The English Counter-Reformation Between 1558 And 1640, Vol. 1 Of Works In Languages Other Than English, Eugene R. Cunnar

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A. F. Allison and D. M. Rogers, The Contemporary Printed Literature of the English Counter-Reformation between 1558 and 1640, Vol. 1 of Works in Languages Other Than English, Gower Publishing/Scholar Press, 1989.

John O'Malley, ed., Catholicism in Early Modern History: A Guide to Research, Center for Reformation Research, 1988.

Antonio Possevino, S.J. As A Counter-Reformation Critic Of The Arts, John Patrick Donnelly S.J.

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The Protestant Reformation called into question many traditions and practices of the Church, including the traditional relation of art to religion. Many Protestant theologians, for instance Calvin and especially Zwingli, condemned religious statues and art as idolatrous or superstitious, partly on the basis of Old Testament prohibitions. Luther and Lutherans approved of religious paintings but rejected the cult of the saints that had figured so largely in medieval and Renaissance religious art. In the Lutheran tradition religious art was more closely tied to the Bible, another manifestation fo the sola scriptura principle. In Catholic circles as well there arose lively …