Embodied Piety: Sacrament Houses and Iconoclasm in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries
<p>On the eve of the <em>Beeldenstorm</em>, a great number of churches in the Low Countries had a sacrament house, a shrine for the Corpus Christi, often metres high. These monstrance-like tabernacles were nearly all destroyed by iconoclasts between 1566 and 1585. This essay discus...
Main Author: | Anne-Laure Van Bruaene |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2016-03-01
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Series: | BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review |
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Online Access: | https://www.bmgn-lchr.nl/articles/10178 |
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