Preface: Images, Words and Grotesques in Shakespeare's England Word vs. Image Building Categories of Material Representation before the Reformation Forbidding Images: With Good Reason Building a Literate Mind Category Mismatches and Grotesque Genre: Shakespeare's Lucrece and Trying Again Managing Cognitive Hunger
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Arguing on recent cognitive evidence that reading a Bible is much more difficult for human brains than seeing images, this book exposes the depth and breadth of Protestant theologians' misunderstandings about how people could reform their spiritual lives - how they could literally change their minds.
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Iconoclasm -- England.
Literacy -- England.
Visual communication -- England -- History -- 16th century.