Remembering the Reformation

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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 Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements List of contributors Abbreviations 1. Introduction: remembering the Reformation PART I: Repressed memory 2. Stilled lives, still lives: Reformation memorial focus 3. The inheritance of loss: post-Reformation memory culture and the limits of antiquarian discourse PART II: Divided memory 4. Bread and stone: Catholic memory in post-Reformation Leiden 5. Remembering the Holy League: material memories in early modern France PART III: Fragmented memory 6. Remembering the past in the Nordic Reformations 7. Rioting blacksmiths and Jewish women: pillarised Reformation memory in early modern Poland PART IV: Inherited memory 8. The first among the many: early modern cultural memory and the Hussites 9. Remembering and forgetting the dead in the churches of Reformation Germany PART V: Invented memory 10. The material of memory in the seventeenth-century Andes: the Cross of Carabuco and local history 11. The British invention of the Waldenses PART VI: Migrating memory 12. On the road: exile, experience, and memory in the Anabaptist diaspora 13. The legacy of exile and the rise of humanitarianism PART VII: Extended memory 14. The stones will cry out: Victorian and Edwardian memorials to the Reformation martyrs 15. Religious heritage and civic identity: remembering the Reformation in Geneva from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century 16. Afterword: memory practices and global Protestantism Index