With guiltles blood oft stained : and the saints of st. albans

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• who: Stewart Mottram from the for acts of protestant iconoclasm elsewhere in Faerie Queene, such as Guyon's destruction of the Bower of Bliss in IIxii.83, or Arthur's breaking the Idol of Geryon inYet Spenser's attitude toward the iconoclasm of the Blatant Beast is perhaps less surprising when we consider it in the context of The Ruines of Time. In Spenser's possible reference to Alban's "guiltles blood" we see an affirmation of protestant pieties, one that roots the poem's later celebration of the saint-like Sidney in a protestant tradition that . . .
  

   

  

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