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
Alexandra Walsham was educated at the Universities of Melbourne and
Cambridge. After completing her doctorate, she held a research
fellowship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, prior to her appointment
as Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter in 1996. Until
recently she was Professor of Reformation History and Head of
Department at Exeter. In September 2010 she took up the post of
Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge. She is
a fellow of
Trinity College and of the British Academy.
One ends this impressive book wanting more and we can hope that a
flotilla of new studies by 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*
Walsham presents an admirably complex rendering of the British and
Irish landscape
*Elizabeth Yale, Social History of Medicine*
This book represents the crowning glory of a new turn in
Reformation historiography. Rather than the customary focus upon
the origins, speed, direction and popularity of England's
sixteenth-century Reformations, Walsham illuminates their impact
upon the landscape with unparalleled breadth, variety and
sophistication.
*Andrew Hopper, Rural History*
The Reformation of the Landscape is an astonishing accomplishment
... This is not just a book for historians of the landscape, or
even Reformation historians. It is a book for anybody with at least
a passing interest in the history of Britain or its constituent
parts, in its religion, its culture, its social practices, its
memory or its national identity/identities. Within its pages the
landscape is lovingly revealed, not as a backdrop for human actors,
or an occasional participant in events, but as an active agent in
our history, and a rich, multifarious and constantly evolving
record of the past as experienced by all who lived in it.
*Jonathan Willis, English Historical Review*
This is an important book: of encouragement and example, as well as
stimulation and provocation.
*Paul Everson, Landscape History*
Walsham has superbly told the story of the "rich, eclectic, and
contradictory legacy which the Reformation...left upon the
landscape" of Britain and Ireland.
*Rudolph P. Almasy, The Sixteenth Century Journal*
a delight, rich with evidence and ideas ... a fresh, interesting,
and exciting read ... a historical blockbuster that will inspire a
generation.
*Adam Stout, Time & Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness
and Culture*
This enormously learned, rich book is a fascinating archaeology,
revealing much about how that mental world came into being.
*Carl Watkins, Magdalene College, Cambridge*
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