‘Utterly abolished, eradicated and erased out’—but never forgotten

Broken Idols of the English Reformation is the much anticipated companion volume to the late Margaret Aston’s England’s Iconoclasts (1988). Decades in the writing, and weighing in at more than a thousand pages, it is a suitably magisterial culmination of the work of a scholar who has done much to illuminate the complex, fascinating history of early English Protestantism’s obsession with idolatry and its eradication. It charts the principles behind, the implementation of, and i