Axe 3 : Séminaire "Histoire globale, politiques et sociétés"

Prochaine séance du séminaire de l'axe 3: Lucy Wooding (Université d'Oxford) sur la thématique suivante : 'Iconography and Iconophobia in post-Reformation English Culture' le mardi 12 mars de 17h à 18h30 en salle B1. 616. Le séminaire se tiendra en co-modalité.

Lucy Wooding est professeure invitée à la Faculté Langues, Sociétés et Cultures du 11 au 16 mars. Elle est spécialiste des Réformes protestantes et catholiques du XVIè et du XVIIè siècles et s'intéresse particulièrement à ce qui relève des pratiques culturelles. Sa communication portera sur le rapport complexe entretenu par les Protestants anglais avec les images. Si l'iconoclasme est l'un des modes de ce rapport, il est loin d'être le seul. Les images sont détournées, réemployées et mobilisées dans les discours polémiques comme dans la vie quotidienne.

Résumé de la communication :

Protestant hostility towards the use of images is a well-recognised aspect of post-Reformation culture, and is often seen as a key indicator of Puritan commitment. Some commentators were critical of imagination itself, condemning even those pictures which were seen ‘in the mind’s eye’. Yet recent research has uncovered a great deal of Protestant imagery, in the household, in woodcut illustrations in books, and in the language of sermons in particular. This paper argues that our preoccuption with form has led historians at times to overlook the content of such imagery. It suggests that we need to pay closer attention to how specific images were understood, and which images in particular were deployed in post-Reformation culture, if we are to appreciate the Protestant imagination of the age. It will also argue that we should uncover the pre-Reformation origins of many Protestant images in order to understand how religious understanding was being recalibrated in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. More broadly, it will suggest that the variegation in attitudes to imagery brings into question the notion of a ‘Protestant consensus’, and proposes that there may be more disjunction and uncertainty in early modern Protestant culture than is often acknowledged.

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