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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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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 )
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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Imagine that AG Dickens and WG Hoskins had an illicit child who was brought up in Australia and then came to England for her doctoral work. Well OK it isn't very likely, and this conceit will only work for you if you were a student in the 1960s, when Dickens and Hoskins led their respective fields.
Whatever her background Alexandra Walsham is a consummate historian who has written a very compelling history of the way that the landscape has influenced religion and been influenced by changing religious sensibilities.
Her book covers a vast area of both space and time but her examples are sure to include some that will please you wherever you live in the United Kingdom, as she finds cases from each of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. She starts before the reformation looking at the way that features of the landscape were closely aligned to individual saints and orders. The tumultuous overturning of this sacred landscape leads her on to the way that gradually the protestants were reconciled to a religious landscape of their own, sometimes because they found themselves without places of worship and sometimes as they rewrote the theological significance of the holy places. Wells and springs for example are dealt with in considerable detail as the medicinal benefits of water wash away the sacred implications of cleansing. Along the way Alexandra Walsham discusses among many other topics the changing theories about standing stones and henges, and the evolution of antiquarianism and archaeology, as well as historiography and the relationship of folklore, belief and history. I am sure that this book will be enjoyed by readers of a wide variety of backgrounds, beliefs and interests; also that it will spur other historians into pushing research further and for non experts to wander into their own local landscape of ruins and wells with newly informed curiosity.
Whatever her background Alexandra Walsham is a consummate historian who has written a very compelling history of the way that the landscape has influenced religion and been influenced by changing religious sensibilities.
Her book covers a vast area of both space and time but her examples are sure to include some that will please you wherever you live in the United Kingdom, as she finds cases from each of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. She starts before the reformation looking at the way that features of the landscape were closely aligned to individual saints and orders. The tumultuous overturning of this sacred landscape leads her on to the way that gradually the protestants were reconciled to a religious landscape of their own, sometimes because they found themselves without places of worship and sometimes as they rewrote the theological significance of the holy places. Wells and springs for example are dealt with in considerable detail as the medicinal benefits of water wash away the sacred implications of cleansing. Along the way Alexandra Walsham discusses among many other topics the changing theories about standing stones and henges, and the evolution of antiquarianism and archaeology, as well as historiography and the relationship of folklore, belief and history. I am sure that this book will be enjoyed by readers of a wide variety of backgrounds, beliefs and interests; also that it will spur other historians into pushing research further and for non experts to wander into their own local landscape of ruins and wells with newly informed curiosity.
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