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The Journal Of William Dowsing. Iconoclasm In East Anglia During The English Civil War. by COOPER, Trevor (editor) For Sale at £50.00
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Woodbridge: Printed by The Boydell Press in association with the Ecclesiological Society, 2001 . 0851158331,,.
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.First edition. (Original edition). Pp.24/551, coloured portrait frontis, numerous tables and full-page plates. With contributions from Robert Walker; John Blatchly; John Morrill and Trevor Cooper. Navy blue boards with illustrated dustwrapper slightly rubbed to top edge. VG/VG . Scarce. During the Civil War, in late 1643 and 1644, the Suffolk puritan William Dowsing visited some hundred parish churches in Cambridgeshire, and about a hundred and fifty in Suffolk, smashing stained glass and other 'superstitious' imagery, ripping up monumental brass inscriptions, destroying altar rails and steps, and pulling down crucifixes and crosses. He dealt equally vigorously with the chapels of the Cambridge colleges, still fresh from their Laudian re-ordering. This modern edition of Dowsing's journal brings together, with commentary, the Cambridgeshire and Suffolk sections of his record of what he destroyed, never previously published together. Dowsing and his character and beliefs are set in context, with coverage of Dowsing and the administration of iconoclasm; the work of Dowsing and his deputies in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk; Dowsing and Cambridge University, and the arguments at Pembroke College; evidence of destruction in the other counties of the Eastern Association; the text and history of the journal..
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