Title Generations : age, ancestry, and memory in the English reformations / Alexandra Walsham

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource Series The Ford lectures ; 2018 Ford lectures ; 2018. Contents Cover -- Generations: Age, Ancestry, and Memory in the English Reformations -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations and Conventions -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Reformations and Generations -- Approaching and Locating the Generations -- 1. Youth and Age -- Youth and Age -- Antiquity and Novelty -- Maturity and Middle Age -- The Progress of Patriarchy -- Ageing in Faith: Rebirth and Regeneration -- Rejecting and Perfecting Reformation -- 2. Kith and Kin -- Little Commonwealths and Wicked Conventicles -- Domestic Duties and Spiritual Seminaries -- Family Religion -- Seedbeds of Subversion? -- Spiritual Kinship -- Families of Love and Societies of Friends -- 3. Blood and Trees -- The Lineage of Adam and Christ -- The Genealogical Imagination -- Moral Biology -- The Descent of Dissent -- Polemical Pedigrees -- The Roots of Reformation -- 4. Generations and Seed -- Past Generations: The Fate of the Dead -- Rising Generations: Saving the Children -- Chosen Generations: The Seed of God -- Generation Work -- Lost Generations: Pious Precursors -- 5. History and Time -- Prophecy and Eschatology -- History and Providence -- Naming the Reformation -- Dating the Reformation -- Timing the Reformations -- The Life Cycle of the Reformations -- 6. Memory and Archive -- Commemorating the Departed -- Leaving Legacies -- Remembering the Reformations -- The Memory of the People -- Heirlooms -- Archives of Reformation -- Conclusion -- Manuscript Sources -- Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales -- Brighton, East Sussex Record Office -- Cambridge, Cambridge University Library -- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College -- Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Houghton Library -- Chester, Cheshire Record Office -- Dorchester, Dorset Record Office -- Durham, Durham County Record Office Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland -- Exeter, Devon Heritage Centre -- Gloucester, Gloucestershire Archives -- Kew, The National Archives -- Liverpool, Liverpool Record Office -- London, Archives of the Archdiocese of Westminster -- London, British Library -- London, Congregational Library -- London, Dr Williams's Library -- London, Friends House Library -- London, Lambeth Palace Library -- London, Parliamentary Archives -- Matlock, Derbyshire Record Office -- Northallerton, North Yorkshire County Record Office -- Norwich, Norfolk Record Office -- Oxford, Bodleian Library -- Oxford, The Queen's College -- San Marino, Henry E. Huntington Library -- Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury School -- Shrewsbury, Shropshire Archives -- Stafford, Staffordshire Record Office -- Taunton, Somerset Heritage Centre -- Washington DC, Folger Shakespeare Library -- Wigston Magna, Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Record Office -- Woking, Surrey History Centre -- Worcester, Worcester Archive and Archaeological Service -- York, York Minster Library -- Index Summary This book injects fresh energy into tired debates about England's plural and protracted Reformations by adopting the fertile concept of generation as its analytical framework. It demonstrates that the tumultuous religious developments that stretched across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries not merely transformed the generations that experienced them but were also forged and created by them. The book investigates how age and ancestry were implicated in the theological and cultural upheavals of the era and how these, in turn, reconfigured the relationship between memory, history, and time. It explores the manifold ways in which the Reformations shaped the horizontal relationships that early modern people formed with their siblings, kin, and peers, as well as the vertical ones that tied them to their dead ancestors and their future heirs. It highlights the vital part that families bound by blood and by faith played in shaping these events, as well as in mediating our knowledge of the religious past and in the making of its archive. Drawing on a rich array of evidence, it provides poignant glimpses into how people navigated the profound challenges that the English Reformations posed in everyday life Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 519-527) and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford University Press, viewed February, 27, 2024) Subject Reformation -- England. Reformation Religion Social conditions Religion & beliefs. Religion. SUBJECT England -- Social conditions -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043313 England -- Social conditions -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043314 England -- Religion -- 16th century England -- Religion -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043309 Subject England Genre/Form Electronic books Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191888434 0191888435 9780192595867 0192595865 9780192595874 0192595873

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