Embodied Piety: Sacrament Houses and Iconoclasm in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries
On the eve of the Beeldenstorm, 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 discusses the dialectics between th...
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| 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://bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view/6425 |