1. Introduction: Reformation, Life-Writing and the Commemorative
Impulse: The Power of the Individual- David J. Crankshaw and George
W. C. Gross
2. 1535 in 1935: Catholic Saints and English Identity: The
Canonization of Thomas More and John Fisher- William Sheils
3. Thomas Cranmer's Reputation Reconsidered- Ashley Null
4. 'Agents of the Reformation': Margaret Cranmer, Anne Hooper and
Elizabeth Coverdale- Rachel Basch
5. Anne Askew- Susan Wabuda
6. 'A Man of Stomach': Matthew Parker's Reputation- David J.
Crankshaw
7. John Whitgift Redivivus: Reconsidering the Reputation of
Elizabeth's Last Archbishop of Canterbury- Felicity Heal
8. Anthony Munday: Eloquent Equivocator or Contemptible Turncoat?-
Elizabeth Evenden-Kenyon
9. Polemic, Memory and Emotion: John Gerard and the Writing of the
Counter-Reformation in England- Peter Lake and Michael Questier
10. Rehabilitating Robert Persons: Then and Now- Victor Houliston
David J. Crankshaw is Lecturer in the History of Early Modern
Christianity at King's College London, UK. He has published on the
Court of Faculties, St Paul's Cathedral and ecclesiastical
statesmanship. George W. C. Gross is a Visiting Research Fellow at
King's College London, UK, where he wrote his doctoral thesis
entitled "The Lord's Anointed": British Coronations in
Religious, Political and Social Contexts, c.1661-c.1714'
(2017).
"This appears to be the first book, featuring
interdisciplinarity, dedicated to exploring the rich history of the
Reformations by investigating the topic with reference to
reputations. ... This well-appointed volume features two dozen
figures and tables, along with a twenty-six-page index. Each of the
ten chapters is lavishly documented, and there are plenty of
provocative suggestions for additional research. The editors and
the publisher should be congratulated on a handsome volume that is
certain to stimulate considerable discussion." (Thomas A. Fudge,
Journal of Religious History, Vol. 46 (2), June, 2022)"This
wide-ranging volume opens with an expansive introductory chapter by
the editors that, at 157 pages, is the length of a short book. ...
The introduction and the essays that follow offer valuable analyses
of the ways in which the reputations of English Reformation figures
were forged, reworked, and contested in shifting contexts, all the
way down to the present day." (Karl Gunther, Church History, Vol.
91 (1), March, 2022)"Each article and the splendid introduction are
first-rate. ... Women are not overlooked in the collection. Susan
Wabuda reexamines Anne Askew, burned at the stake for heresy by
King Henry VIII in 1546, and immortalized in Foxe's Actes and
Monuments. ... In an especially intriguing contribution, Rachel
Basch considers Margaret Cranmer, Anne Hooper, and Elizabeth
Coverdale ... ." (Thomas M. McCoog, S.J., Journal of Jesuit
Studies, Vol. 9, 2022)
"Crankshaw and Gross are writing neither Reformation history nor
memory study. They are considering lives remembered across time.
Noting that remembering required print, and that printed
reputations could provoke printed responses, they provide a very
useful table of autobiographical and biographical works through
1718. ... This fine collection gives historians of religion much to
ponder. As we watch the heroes of the English Reformation swing ...
we must ask what our parts are in this process of reputation
building." (Norm Jones, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 73
(1), January, 2022)"Each of the essays in this volume offers new
understandings of the men and women who shaped England's religious
politics in the sixteenth century. The volume as a whole is a
timely reminder of the historical significance of 'the power of
individual agency' ... ." (Mary Morrissey, Renaissance and
Reformation, Vol. 43 (4), 2021)
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