Memory and the English Reformation

ISBN-13: 9781108829991 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 425 str.

Brian Cummings; Ceri Law; Bronwyn Wallace

Opis

Recasts the Reformation as a battleground over memory, in which new identities were formed through acts of commemoration, invention and repression.

Recenzje

'This is that rare academic volume which is worth every penny of the purchase price, because readers will find themselves returning to it again and again. This book is a triumph.' Mark Rankin, Reformation Journal

Spis treści

Introduction. Memory and the English reformation Alexandra Walsham, Brian Cummings and Ceri Law; Part I. Events and Temporalities: 1. Nailing the reformation: Luther and the Wittenberg door in English historical memory Peter Marshall; 2. Remembering the dissolution of the monasteries: events, chronology, and memory in Charles Wriothesley's chronicle Harriet Lyon; 3. Remembering the past at the end of time Adam Morton; 4. Henry VIII's ghost in Cromwellian England Christopher Highley; 5. Remembering Mary, contesting reform: the English sonnets of the litany of Loreto Susannah Monta; 6. Converting the cross: monuments, memory, and time in post-reformation England Alexandra Walsham; Part II. Objects and Places: 7. Dolls and idols in the English reformation Joe Moshenska; 8. Monuments and the reformation Peter Sherlock; 9. Memorable motifs: the role of 'synoptic' imagery in remembering the English reformation Tara Hamling; 10. Revitalizing antiquities: sacred silver and its afterlives in post-reformation England Tessa Murdoch; 11. Re-reading ruins: Edmund Spenser and Scottish Presbyterianism Stewart Mottram; 12. 'Monuments of our indignation': John Milton and the reception of Reformation iconoclasm in the seventeenth century Philip Schwyzer; Part III. Lives and Afterlives: 13. Compromise refashioned: memory and life-writing in Matthew parker's roll Ceri Law; 14. Heresy, history, and Henry V Susan Royal; 15. The letters of the martyrs: remembering and reclaiming the apostolic form Johanna Harris; 16. Competing lives and contested objects: Thomas More's hair-shirt and the production of memory Victoria van Hyning; 17. Visual memory, portraiture and the Protestant credentials of Tudor and Stuart families Tarnya Cooper; 18. Legends, shrines, and ruined tombs: memory and Reformation in female-voiced complaint Cathy Shrank; Part IV. Rituals and Bodies: 19. The wounded missal: iconoclasm, ritual and memory in Reformation Yorkshire Brian Cummings; 20. Gesture, meaning and memory in the English Reformation Arnold Hunt; 21. Believers' baptism, commemoration, and communal identity in revolutionary England Rachel Adcock; 22. Making memories in post-Reformation English catholic musical miscellanies Emilie Murphy; 23. The liturgical commemoration of the English Reformation, 1534–1625 Alec Ryrie; Index.