Remembering the Reformation

'This consistently stimulating and illuminating collection of essays examines not just how, across a wide range of contexts, the Reformation has been remembered, but what "remembering the Reformation" might actually mean. It is essential reading for anyone interested in memory as a constructive and creative, and often deceptive, cultural force.'

Peter Marshall, University of Warwick, UK

'This volume offers the reader a survey of memory cultures, both seeded and sundered by the European Reformation, that is daringly imaginative in scope and unfailingly thought-provoking in content. Taken together, these essays constitute a richly suggestive theatre of memory which enables the reader to locate with precision and nuance the role played by the past in shaping the self-understanding of the protagonists as well as the retrospective comprehension of posterity.'

Simon Ditchfield, University of York, UK

'The essays in this volume advance the pressing discussion of how narratives of remembering and forgetting shaped the early modern world and its afterlife. Individually, they throw light on the diversity of ways in which the Reformation was construed, while collectively they make the case for the protean nature of complex, seismic and global change.'

Bruce Gordon, Yale University, USA