DOIAbstract
Landmarks in History of Iconoclasm in the Middle Ages. It is fact that in the Middle Ages - long before the Reformation - devote Christians again and again intentionally made violent attacks on sacred images without any religious or theological argumentation about image-worship. In order to understand this process one must be aware of the medieval conviction of the saint being materially present in the visual representation the saint was individualized and localized in each representation : of worship. Therefore only that specific object of worship was meant to be attacked not the sacred in general. Such actions have to be seen as extreme varieties in the bandwidth of different religious practices. Very different reasons made people act i...
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