Religious Space in Reformation England:

Contesting the Past

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Susan Guinn-Chipman

Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World

The dissolution of the monasteries in England during the 1530s began a turbulent period of restructuring. Focusing on devotional spaces in the counties of Wiltshire and Cheshire, Guinn-Chipman looks at how local communities adapted to the effects of religious reform, placing particular emphasis on the responses of those who were resistant to change. She argues for the development of a national identity created from memories of suppressed religious space alongside the formation of a historicized sense of the past following the Civil War.

Readership

Early Modern Studies and Religious History

Contents

Introduction
1 Religious Space in Henrician England: Dissolution and Adaptation
2 Religious Space in Late-Henrician and Edwardian England: Radicalization and Response
3 Reframing the Parish Church in Marian and Elizabethan England: Cultural Adaptation in the Later Sixteenth Century
4 Contesting Religious Space: Alteration and Reaction in Stuart England
Epilogue: The Persistence of Memory

Related titles

• Angels and Belief in England, 1480–1700
• English Catholicism, 1680–1830
• English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800
• John Bale and Religious Conversion in Reformation England
• The Laudians and the Elizabethan Church: History, Conformity and Religious Identity in Post-Reformation England
• Militant Protestantism and British Identity, 1603–1642
• The Religious Culture of Marian England
• Sacred History and National Identity: Comparisons between Early Modern Wales and Brittany

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