Generations : age, ancestry, and memory in the English reformations / Alexandra Walsham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walsham, Alexandra, 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformation--England.

Reformation.

England--Social conditions--16th century.

England.

England--Social conditions--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (566 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Generations examines how the English Reformation was shaped by the generations that experienced, witnessed, and participated in it. Drawing on a rich array of evidence, it highlights the vital part played by families bound by blood and by faith in the religious revolution that stretched across the 16th and 17th centuries.

Contents:

Cover

Generations: Age, Ancestry, and Memory in the English Reformations

Copyright

Dedication

Preface and Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Abbreviations and Conventions

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Reformations and Generations

Approaching and Locating the Generations

1. Youth and Age

Youth and Age

Antiquity and Novelty

Maturity and Middle Age

The Progress of Patriarchy

Ageing in Faith: Rebirth and Regeneration

Rejecting and Perfecting Reformation

2. Kith and Kin

Little Commonwealths and Wicked Conventicles

Domestic Duties and Spiritual Seminaries

Family Religion

Seedbeds of Subversion?

Spiritual Kinship

Families of Love and Societies of Friends

3. Blood and Trees

The Lineage of Adam and Christ

The Genealogical Imagination

Moral Biology

The Descent of Dissent

Polemical Pedigrees

The Roots of Reformation

4. Generations and Seed

Past Generations: The Fate of the Dead

Rising Generations: Saving the Children

Chosen Generations: The Seed of God

Generation Work

Lost Generations: Pious Precursors

5. History and Time

Prophecy and Eschatology

History and Providence

Naming the Reformation

Dating the Reformation

Timing the Reformations

The Life Cycle of the Reformations

6. Memory and Archive

Commemorating the Departed

Leaving Legacies

Remembering the Reformations

The Memory of the People

Heirlooms

Archives of Reformation

Conclusion

Manuscript Sources

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales

Brighton, East Sussex Record Office

Cambridge, Cambridge University Library

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Houghton Library

Chester, Cheshire Record Office

Dorchester, Dorset Record Office

Durham, Durham County Record Office.

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland

Exeter, Devon Heritage Centre

Gloucester, Gloucestershire Archives

Kew, The National Archives

Liverpool, Liverpool Record Office

London, Archives of the Archdiocese of Westminster

London, British Library

London, Congregational Library

London, Dr Williams's Library

London, Friends House Library

London, Lambeth Palace Library

London, Parliamentary Archives

Matlock, Derbyshire Record Office

Northallerton, North Yorkshire County Record Office

Norwich, Norfolk Record Office

Oxford, Bodleian Library

Oxford, The Queen's College

San Marino, Henry E. Huntington Library

Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury School

Shrewsbury, Shropshire Archives

Stafford, Staffordshire Record Office

Taunton, Somerset Heritage Centre

Washington DC, Folger Shakespeare Library

Wigston Magna, Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Record Office

Woking, Surrey History Centre

Worcester, Worcester Archive and Archaeological Service

York, York Minster Library

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-19-259587-3

0-19-259586-5

0-19-188843-5