Remembering the Reformation

This stimulating volume explores how the memory of the Reformation has been remembered, forgotten, contested, and reinvented between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries.

Auteur

Brian Cummings is Anniversary Professor of English at the University of York and a Fellow of the British Academy. He edited The Book of Common Prayer (2013) and his book Mortal Thoughts (2013) won the Dietz Prize of the Modern Language Association of America. With Alexandra Walsham, he co-directed the AHRC project 'Remembering the Reformation' between 2016 and 2019.

Ceri Law has worked at Queen Mary University of London, Cambridge University, and the University of Essex. She is the author of Contested Reformations in the University of Cambridge, c.1535-84 (2018). She was a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the AHRC 'Remembering the Reformation' project between 2016 and 2019.

Karis Riley has degrees in Philosophy, Classics, and English Literature and is currently completing a book on Milton and the passions. She was a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the AHRC 'Remembering the Reformation' project between 2018 and 2019.

Alexandra Walsham is Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the British Academy. She has published five books, including The Reformation of the Landscape (2011), which won the Wolfson History Prize in 2012. With Brian Cummings, she co-directed the AHRC project 'Remembering the Reformation' between 2016 and 2019.

Contenu

1. Introduction: remembering the Reformation

Brian Cummings, Ceri Law, Karis Riley, and Alexandra Walsham

Part I: Repressed memory

2. Stilled lives, still lives: Reformation memorial focus

James Simpson

3. The inheritance of loss: post-Reformation memory culture and the limits of antiquarian discourse

Isabel Karremann

Part II: Divided memory

4. Bread and stone: Catholic memory in post-Reformation Leiden

Carolina Lenarduzzi and Judith Pollmann

5. Remembering the Holy League: material memories in early modern France*

David van der Linden

Part III: Fragmented memory

6. Remembering the past in the Nordic Reformations

Tarald Rasmussen

7. Rioting blacksmiths and Jewish women: pillarised Reformation memory in early modern Poland

Natalia Nowakowska

Part IV: Inherited memory

8. The first among the many: early modern cultural memory and the Hussites

Phillip Haberkern

9. Remembering and forgetting the dead in the churches of Reformation Germany

Róisín Watson

Part V: Invented memory

10. The material of memory in the seventeenth-century Andes: the Cross of Carabuco and local history

Katrina B. Olds

11. The British invention of the Waldenses

Stefano Villani

Part VI: Migrating memory

12. On the road: exile, experience, and memory in the Anabaptist diaspora

Kat Hill

13. The legacy of exile and the rise of humanitarianism

Geert H. Janssen

Part VII: Extended memory

14. The stones will cry out: Victorian and Edwardian memorials to the Reformation martyrs

Andrew Atherstone

15. Religious heritage and civic identity: remembering the Reformation in Geneva from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century

Philip Benedict and Sarah Scholl

Afterword: memory practices and global Protestantism

Dagmar Freist