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The Reformation of the Landscape - Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland (Paperback)
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The Reformation of the Landscape - Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland (Paperback)
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The Reformation of the Landscape is a richly detailed and original
study of the relationship between the landscape of Britain and
Ireland and the tumultuous religious changes of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. It explores how the profound theological and
liturgical transformations that marked the era between 1500 and
1750 both shaped, and were in turn shaped by, the places and spaces
within the physical environment in which they occurred. Moving
beyond churches, cathedrals, and monasteries, it investigates how
the Protestant and Catholic Reformations affected perceptions and
practices associated with trees, woods, springs, rocks, mountain
peaks, prehistoric monuments, and other distinctive topographical
features of the British Isles. Drawing on extensive research and
embracing insights from a range of disciplines, Alexandra Walsham
examines the origins, immediate consequences, and later
repercussions of these movements of religious renewal, together
with the complex but decisive modifications of belief and behaviour
to which they gave rise. It demonstrates how ecclesiastical
developments intersected with other intellectual and cultural
trends, including the growth of antiquarianism and the spread of
the artistic and architectural Renaissance, the emergence of
empirical science and shifting fashions within the spheres of
medicine and healing. Set within a chronological framework that
stretches backwards towards the early Middle Ages and forwards into
the nineteenth century, the book assesses the critical part played
by the landscape in forging confessional identities and in
reconfiguring collective and social memory. It illuminates the ways
in which the visible world was understood and employed by the
diverse religious communities that occupied the British Isles, and
shows how it became a battleground in which bitter struggles about
the significance of the Christian and pagan past were waged.
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