IMAGE, TEXT, AND RELIGIOUS REFORM IN FIFTEENTH

Focusing on the period between the Wycliffite critique of images and Reformation iconoclasm, Shannon Gayk investigates the sometimes complementary and sometimes fraught relationship between vernacular devotional writing and the religious image. She examines how a set of fifteenth-century writers, including Lollard authors, John Lydgate, Thomas Hoccleve, John Capgrave, and Reginald Pecock, tran slated complex clerical debates about the pedagogical and spiritual efficacy of images and texts into vernacular settings and litera ry forms.