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Joint Winner of the Wolfson History Prize 2011
Winner of the American Historical Association Leo Gershoy Prize 2011
The Reformation of the Landscape
Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland
Alexandra Walsham
654 pages
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52 black and white images
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234x156mm
978-0-19-924355-6
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Hardback
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17 February 2011
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- The first major study of the impact of religious change on the landscape of the British Isles
- Connects the religious upheavals of the era with other cultural and intellectual trends, including the growth of antiquarianism and developments in medicine and science
- Draws on deep and extensive research, and exploits a wide variety of printed and manuscript sources
- Ambitious geographical and chronological range: covers Britain and Ireland in its entirety; focuses on the period 1500-1750 but extends backwards to the early medieval period and forwards into the nineteenth century
- Richly detailed and extensively illustrated
The Reformation of the Landscape is a richly detailed and original study of the relationship between the landscape of Britain and Ireland and the tumultuous religious changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It explores how the profound theological and liturgical transformations that marked the era between 1500 and 1750 both shaped, and were in turn shaped by, the places and spaces within the physical environment in which they occurred. Moving beyond churches, cathedrals, and monasteries, it investigates how the Protestant and Catholic Reformations affected perceptions and practices associated with trees, woods, springs, rocks, mountain peaks, prehistoric
monuments, and other distinctive topographical features of the British Isles. Drawing on extensive research and embracing insights from a range of disciplines, Alexandra Walsham examines the origins, immediate consequences, and later repercussions of these movements of religious renewal, together with the complex but decisive modifications of belief and behaviour to which they gave rise.
It demonstrates how ecclesiastical developments intersected with other intellectual and cultural trends, including the growth of antiquarianism and the spread of the artistic and architectural Renaissance, the emergence of empirical science and shifting fashions within the spheres of medicine and healing. Set within a chronological framework that stretches backwards towards the
early Middle Ages and forwards into the nineteenth century, the book assesses the critical part played by the landscape in forging confessional identities and in reconfiguring collective and social memory. It illuminates the ways in which the visible world was understood and employed by the diverse religious communities that occupied the British Isles, and shows how it became a battleground in which bitter struggles about the significance of the Christian and pagan past were waged.Readership: Scholars and postgraduate and undergraduate students of the history of early modern Britain and Ireland; scholars and students of other disciplines, including English Literature, Archaeology, Geography, Religious Studies,
Folklore; other general readers with an interest in the history of religion and the landscape and environment
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Alexandra Walsham, Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Trinity College
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"One ends this impressive book wanting more and we can hope that a flotilla of new studies buy other scholars will appear in its wake." - Kenneth Fincham, History Today "the most important book on the Reformation in Britain and Ireland." - Catholic Times "The overall picture is vivid, astoundingly detailed and deeply compelling in its conceptual range and its forthright analysis. This book moves with both grace and authority over a vast tract of time and space, giving a whole new dimension to the Reformation debate, and contributing to several other related discussions as it goes... Charting the topography of religious conviction and the panorama of magic and memory, [Walsham] has reconfigured a
landscape of her own, contributing an outstanding landmark to the scholarly terrain." - Lucy Wooding, Times Higher Education "The interweaving of religious and local history in this book produces a most stimulating effect. Based on research as broad as it is deep, it conveys an understanding of the habits of belief and desire that drove generations of men and women all over these islands to feats of destruction and preservation in the cause of religion." - Graham Parry, The Guardian "This book draws on immense learning, wearing it lightly...Its grace and authority will commend it to theologians, anthropologists, geographers and a mass of general readers besides academic historians. Its compelling argument makes the book required reading
for all concerned with early modern Britain and Ireland. The Reformation of the Landscape confirms Alexandra Walsham's place in the very front rank of British historians." - Anthony Fletcher, Times Literary Supplement "A superb work of synthesis, full of fascinating detail, animated by an astringent intelligence and abounding in original insights." - Keith Thomas, London Review of Books "Magisterial...[Walsham] cements her reputation as the finest Reformation historian of her generation...a landmark of Reformation studies." - Alec Ryrie, The Tablet "A fascinating study of the place of landscape in English religious sentiment during the century and a half after the Reformation, a work of stunning originality."
- Jonathan Sumption, The Spectator "Brings an extraordinary breadth and depth of erudition, high literary gifts, and remarkable intellectual ambition... Colourful, complex, subtle, sophisticated, argumentative, and wide-ranging, Walshams book forces us to look anew at many familiar themes, besides pointing towards a host of unfamiliar places." - Wilfred Prest, Australian Book Review
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Introduction
1: Loca Sacra: Religion and the Landscape before the Reformation
2: Idols in the Landscape: The Impact of Protestant Reform
3: Britannia Sancta: Catholicism, Counter Reformation and the Landscape
4: The Religious Regeneration of the Landscape: Ritual, Rehabilitation and Renewal
5: God's Great Book in Folio: Providence, Science and the Natural Environment
6: Therapeutic Waters: Religion, Medicine and the Landscape
7: Invented Traditions: Legend, Custom, and Memory
Conclusion
Bibliography of Primary Sources
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