Michael W. Cole and Rebecca Zorach (eds), The Idol in the Age of Art — Objects, Devotions and the Early Modern World

This dense work, which collects essays from scholars in widely ranging fields, oversteps conventional boundaries, extending past the 16th century and reaching out further than Europe—to which art history is sometimes confined—, opening onto issues of cross-cultural encounters and conflict. In the wake of the path-breaking work of the Reformation historian Michael Camille, The Gothic Idol, the book deals with a broad spectrum of objects and texts that document attitudes toward the idol mainly .