Title Memory and the English reformation / edited by Alexandra Walsham, University of Cambridge, Bronwyn Wallace, Ceri Law, Brian Cummings, University of York

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 448 pages) : illustrations Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Memory and the English Reformation -- Frameworks and Contexts -- Early Modern Memory -- The Memory of the Reformation -- The Reformation of Memory -- Architecture and Themes -- Events and Temporalities -- Objects and Places -- Lives and Afterlives -- Rituals and Bodies -- Conclusion -- Part I Events and Temporalities 1 Nailing the Reformation: Luther and the Wittenberg Door in English Historical Memory -- Introduction -- English Early Modern Indifference -- Luther's Thesenanschlag and Nineteenth-Century Dissent -- Anglican Uncertainties and the Non-commemoration of the Reformation -- 2 Remembering the Dissolution of the Monasteries: Events, Chronology and Memory in Charles Wriothesley's Chronicle -- Charles Wriothesley's Chronicle: Reform, Surrender and Suppression in the 1530s -- From Process to Event: The Emergence of the Language of 'Dissolution' Naming and Commemorating the 'Dissolution of the Monasteries' -- 3 Remembering the Past at the End of Time -- Reconciling Prophecy and History -- Images and Hidden Memory -- Eschatology and Emotion -- Conclusion -- 4 Henry VIII's Ghost in Cromwellian England -- Spectral Encounters -- A messenger from the dead (1658) -- Nuntius a mortuis (1657) -- Conclusion -- 5 Remembering Mary, Contesting Reform: The English Sonnets of the Litany of Loreto -- The Loreto Sonnets in Context -- Re-presenting Mary -- 6 Converting the Cross: Monuments, Memory and Time in Post-Reformation England Reforming the Cross -- Converting the Cross -- Translation and Time -- Monuments and Memory -- Part II Objects and Places -- 7 Dolls and Idols in the English Reformation -- Introduction: 'I haue here myne ydoll' -- Iconoclasm as Child's Play in the Early Modern World -- Christian Play: 'An Enduring Tide of Condemnation'? -- Conclusion: 'Toy Potential' -- 8 Monuments and the Reformation -- Introduction -- Funerary Monuments and Reformation Memory -- Martyrs' Memorials and Reformation Memory -- Conclusion -- 9 Memorable Motifs: The Role of 'Synoptic' Imagery in Remembering the English Reformation For Memories' Sake -- Visual Memory -- In Print -- In the Home -- On the Field -- Insularity and Immediacy -- Judgements -- 10 Revitalising Antiquities: Sacred Silver and Its Afterlives in Post-Reformation England -- The Afterlife of Rock Crystal -- Rock Crystal Fragments: Found and Reused -- Salt as a Sacred Commodity -- Relics and Martyrs -- Recusants and Convents -- Relics with Royal Provenance -- Sacred Silver for Recusant Practice -- Recusant Treasures of the Petre Family -- Sacred Association Revitalised -- 11 Rereading Ruins: Edmund Spenser and Scottish Presbyterianism Summary "The protracted religious revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries involved a concerted attempt to reshape social memory. It repudiated some key aspects of medieval commemorative culture, rehabilitated others in a modified guise, and created new modes of memorialisation, which were embodied in texts, material objects, physical buildings, rituals, and bodily gestures. This volume places these complex developments under the microscope. It also investigates the retrospective process, involving amnesia and reinvention, by which the English Reformation became a historic event. Examining the dissident as well as the official dimensions of this story, this richly illustrated, interdisciplinary collection traces how memory of the English Reformation evolved in the two centuries following the Henrician schism. Moving beyond the heated debates that have taken place about its nature, success and significance, it diverts attention towards the ways in which the Reformation entered and embedded itself in the cultural imagination"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 30, 2020) Subject Reformation -- England. Manners and customs Reformation SUBJECT England -- Church history -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043267 England -- Church history -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043268 England -- Social life and customs -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043321 England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043322 Subject England Genre/Form Church history Form Electronic book Author Cummings, Brian, editor. LC no. 2020013844 ISBN 9781108900157 1108900151 9781108902090 110890209X

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