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The reformation of the landscape: religion, identity, and memory in early modern Britain and Ireland

Alexandra Walsham 2012 © Oxford University Press
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  • 9780199243556 (hardcover)
  • 9780199654383 (paper)
Subject
  • Religion
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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page xi)
  • Abbreviations and Conventions (page xv)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • I Loca sacra: Religion and the Landscape before the Reformation (page 18)
    • Shrines and Sanctuaries: The Sacred Geography of Paganism (page 19)
    • Footprints of the Saints: The Christianization of the Landscape (page 26)
    • Miracles and Pilgrims: The Later Middle Ages (page 49)
    • The Delusion of the People: The Struggle against Superstition (page 66)
  • 2 Idols in the Landscape: The Impact of Protestant Reformation (page 80)
    • A Teacher of Lies: The Theological Assault upon Sacred Landscape (page 81)
    • Removing Stumbling Blocks: Iconoclasm, Official and Clandestine (page 94)
    • Wars against the Idols: The Civil Wars and Later Phases of the Long Reformation (page 125)
    • Remembrancers of the Reformation: Desecrated Places (page 147)
  • 3 Britannia sancta: Catholoicism, Counter-Reformation, and the Landscape (page 153)
    • Spiritual Medicine for Heretical Poison: Pilgrimage as Confessional Polemic (page 156)
    • Bare Ruined Choirs and Mass Rocks: Catholic Piety and the Landscape (page 166)
    • Islands of the Saints: Missionaries, Laypeople, and the Revival of Medieval Holy Places (page 189)
    • The Very Stones Would Cry Out: Martyrs and the Making of a New Geography of the Sacred (page 217)
  • 4 The Religious Regeneration of the Landscape: Ritual, Rehabilitation, and Renewal (page 233)
    • Gadding to Sermons and Creeping in Corners: Lollards and Protestants in the Landscape (page 234)
    • Beating the Bounds and the Beauty of Holiness: Liturgical Rites, Laudianism, and the Resacralization of Space (page 252)
    • The Chief Blemish of the Reformation: Monastic Ruins, Sacrilege, and the Reassessment of the Medieval Past (page 273)
    • Monuments, Fountains, and Follies: Archaeology, Architecture, and Gardening (page 296)
  • 5 God's Great Book in Folio: Providence, Science, and the Natural Environment (page 327)
    • The Wonderful Workmanship of the World: Creation and Providence (page 328)
    • Extraordinary Preachers: Prodigious Nature and Catastrophic Events (page 340)
    • Britannica Baconica: Religion and Natural History (page 357)
    • The Sacred Theory of the Earth: Physico-Theology (page 376)
  • 6 Therapeutic Waters: Religion, Medicine, and the Landscape (page 395)
    • Reforming the Waters: From Holy Wells to Healing Springs? (page 397)
    • New Found Spaws: Chemical Testing, Cold Bathing. and Commercialization (page 414)
    • The Largess of Heaven: Medicine and Piety at the Watering Places (page 431)
    • Errours of the People in Matter of Physick: Wells beyond the Medical Mainstream (page 455)
  • 7 Invented Traditions: Legend, Custom, and Memory (page 471)
    • Popish Survivals? Miracles, Monks, and Saints (page 476)
    • Reformed Fables? Divine Judgements and the Devil's Exploits (page 497)
    • Protestant Traditions: Persecution, Patriotism, and Rites of Purification (page 515)
    • Innocent Pastimes: Ritual, Recreation, and Pilgrimage in the Post-Reformation (page 531)
  • Conclusion (page 555)
  • Bibliography of Primary Sources (page 568)
  • General Index (page 607)
  • Index of Places (page 627)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
ENVH 17.4 (Oct. 2012): 887-889 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41721467
JMH 85.2 (June 2013): 422-425 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/669769
FOLK 123.3 (Dec. 2012): 366-367 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41721567
CH 81.4 (Dec. 2012): 1001-1003 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23358714
ENHR 127.528 (Oct. 2012): 1211-1215 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23272759
RQ 65.4 (Winter 2012): 1261-1262 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/669407
18C 55.2-3 (Summer/Fall 2014): 319-323 https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_eighteenth_century/v055/55.2-3.van-renen.html
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