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Book SynopsisGenerations 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.
Trade Review...interesting, wide-ranging and valuable. * Ronald Hutton, Times Literary Supplement *
Magisterial ... there is much to be gained in thinking about how different experiences and emotional dynamics drove tensions between what you might, for example, call Generation Calvin and Generation Laud. * Matthew Lyons, The Critic *
Walsham's book, which had its own genesis in the Ford Lectures she gave in Oxford in 2018, is at the same time a work of formidable scholarship, and a deeply humane and fascinating read. It contains along the way some clear sighted judgements on a number of different historical debates, and makes important contributions to fields as various as the history of the family, the history of the book and the history of visual and material culture...It might be said that this book testifies to the ways in which the history of the English Reformation is itself coming of age. * Lucy Wooding, The Tablet *
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Youth and Age 2: Kith and Kin 3: Blood and Trees 4: Generations and Seed 5: History and Time 6: Memory and Archive Conclusion
