9) that, although remaining aware of the differences between Catholic and Protestant, were able to embrace the common ground between them as well. 7), but seen as producing “religious identities” (p. In the remaining chapters he analyzes the meaning and deployment of a wide range of images and symbols-the Virgin, the Holy Monogram, the Crucifixion, the Agnus Dei, the Good Shepherd, visions of God, and the tetragrammaton-and concludes that developments in England should not be “graphed along strict confessional or ideological lines” (p. This literature has already done much to discredit older assumptions of a sharp divide between Catholic and Protestant positions, and to tease out the relationships between images and text in various contexts, but the author feels these ideas can be taken further. Setting the scene in the first two chapters, David Davis reviews the rapidly expanding literature on the print trade in sixteenth-century England and on contemporary attitudes toward the use of images. This study of religious images printed as woodcuts and engravings in English publications from 1535 to 1603 is based on the author’s doctoral research under the supervision of Alexandra Walsham at the University of Exeter.

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