Church Bells of England
Church Bells of England

Author: Henry Beauchamp Walters

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781015977532

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Broken Idols of the English Reformation
Broken Idols of the English Reformation

Author: Margaret Aston

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-11-26

Total Pages: 1994

ISBN-13: 1316060470

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Why were so many religious images and objects broken and damaged in the course of the Reformation? Margaret Aston's magisterial new book charts the conflicting imperatives of destruction and rebuilding throughout the English Reformation from the desecration of images, rails and screens to bells, organs and stained glass windows. She explores the motivations of those who smashed images of the crucifixion in stained glass windows and who pulled down crosses and defaced symbols of the Trinity. She shows that destruction was part of a methodology of religious revolution designed to change people as well as places and to forge in the long term new generations of new believers. Beyond blanked walls and whited windows were beliefs and minds impregnated by new modes of religious learning. Idol-breaking with its emphasis on the treacheries of images fundamentally transformed not only Anglican ways of worship but also of seeing, hearing and remembering.

Church Bells
Church Bells

Author: H. B. Walters

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-09-08

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 9781537262413

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"Early History and Methods of Casting. The origin of the bell as an instrument of music is, one may almost say, lost in antiquity. Its use is, moreover, widely spread over the whole world. But I do not propose to enlarge on its early history here, or on its employment by all nations, Christian or heathen. Space will not permit me to do more than trace its history and uses in the Christian Church, and more particularly in the Church of England. The word "bell" is said to be connected with "bellow" and "bleat" and to refer to its sound; the later Latin writers call it, among other names, campana, a word with which we are familiar, not only as frequently occurring in old bell inscriptions, but as forming part of the word "Campanalogy," or the science of bell-ringing. The French and Germans, again, call it cloche and glocke respectively, the words being the same as our "clock"; but that is a later use, and they really mean "cloak," with reference to the shape of the bell, or rather of the mould in which it is cast. Modern bell-founders, it is interesting to note, speak of the mould as the cope, which again suggests a connection with the form of a garment. It is not known exactly when bells were introduced into the Christian Church; but it is certain that large bells of the form with which we are [...]."