Remembering the Reformation; First Edition

This stimulating volume explores how the memory of the Reformation has been remembered, forgotten, contested, and reinvented between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries. Remembering the Reformation traces how a complex, protracted, and unpredictable process came to be perceived, recorded, and commemorated as a transformative event. Exploring both local and global patterns of memory, the contributors examine the ways in which the Reformation embedded itself in the historical imagination and analyse the enduring, unstable, and divided legacies that it engendered. The book also underlines how modern scholarship is indebted to processes of memory-making initiated in the early modern period and challenges the conventional models of periodisation that the Reformation itself helped to create. This collection of essays offers an expansive examination and theoretically engaged discussion of concepts and practices of memory and Reformation. This volume is ideal for upper level undergraduates and postgraduates studying the Reformation, Early Modern Religious History, Early Modern European History, and Early Modern Literature. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 5 Title Page 6 Copyright Page 7 Dedication 8 Table of Contents 10 List of Figures 13 Acknowledgements 16 List of contributors 17 Abbreviations 19 1. Introduction: remembering the Reformation 20 PART I: Repressed memory 40 2. Stilled lives, still lives: Reformation memorial focus 42 3. The inheritance of loss: post-Reformation memory culture and the limits of antiquarian discourse 60 PART II: Divided memory 78 4. Bread and stone: Catholic memory in post-Reformation Leiden 80 5. Remembering the Holy League: material memories in early modern France 97 PART III: Fragmented memory 116 6. Remembering the past in the Nordic Reformations 118 7. Rioting blacksmiths and Jewish women: pillarised Reformation memory in early modern Poland 137 PART IV: Inherited memory 156 8. The first among the many: early modern cultural memory and the Hussites 158 9. Remembering and forgetting the dead in the churches of Reformation Germany 173 PART V: Invented memory 192 10. The material of memory in the seventeenth-century Andes: the Cross of Carabuco and local history 194 11. The British invention of the Waldenses 211 PART VI: Migrating memory 226 12. On the road: exile, experience, and memory in the Anabaptist diaspora 228 13. The legacy of exile and the rise of humanitarianism 245 PART VII: Extended memory 262 14. The stones will cry out: Victorian and Edwardian memorials to the Reformation martyrs 264 15. Religious heritage and civic identity: remembering the Reformation in Geneva from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century 284 16. Afterword: memory practices and global Protestantism 305 Index 319 1 Introduction; "2 Stilled lives,still lives"; 3 The inheritance of loss; 4 Bread and stone; 5 Remembering the Holy League; 6 Remembering the Past in the Nordic Reformations; 7 Rioting blacksmiths and Jewish women; 8 The first among the many; 9 Remembering and forgetting the dead in the churches of Reformation Germany; 10 The material of memory in the seventeenth-century Andes; 11 The British invention of the Waldenses; 12 On the road; 13 The legacy of exile and the rise of humanitarianism1; 14 The stones will cry out; 15 Religious heritage and civic identity; 16 Afterword 1 Introduction,2 Stilled lives, still lives,3 The inheritance of loss,4 Bread and stone,5 Remembering the Holy League,6 Remembering the Past in the Nordic Reformations,7 Rioting blacksmiths and Jewish women,8 The first among the many,9 Remembering and forgetting the dead in the churches of Reformation Germany,10 The material of memory in the seventeenth-century Andes,11 The British invention of the Waldenses,12 On the road,13 The legacy of exile and the rise of humanitarianism1,14 The stones will cry out,15 Religious heritage and civic identity,16 Afterword "This stimulating volume explores how the memory of the Reformation has been remembered, forgotten, contested, and reinvented between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries. Remembering the Reformation traces how a complex, protracted and unpredictable process came to be perceived, recorded, and commemorated as a transformative event. From local to global patterns of memory, the contributors examine the ways in which the Reformation embedded itself in the historical imagination and analyse the enduring, unstable and divided legacies that it engendered. The book also underlines how modern scholarship is indebted to processes of memory-making initiated in the early modern period and challenges the conventional models of periodization that the Reformation itself helped to create. This collection of essays offers an expansive examination and theoretically engaged discussion of concepts and practices of memory and Reformation. This volume is ideal for upper level undergraduates and postgraduates studying the Reformation, Early Modern Religious History, Early Modern European History, and Early Modern Literature"-- Provided by publisher