Alexandra Walsham
Auteur de The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland
A propos de l'auteur
Alexandra Walsham is Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College.
Œuvres de Alexandra Walsham
Oeuvres associées
The World of John Winthrop: England and New England, 1588-1649 (Massachusetts Historical Society Studies in American… (2006) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Renaissance Quarterly : Volume LXIX, No. 2 (Summer 2016) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1966-01-04
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- England
- Lieu de naissance
- Hayle, Cornwall, England
- Études
- University of Melbourne (BA ∙ MA)
University of Cambridge (PhD|1995) - Professions
- historian
university professor - Organisations
- Ecclesiastical History Society
Association of University Teachers
Church of England Record Society
Cambridge Historical Society
Cambridge Commonwealth Society
University of Cambridge (tout afficher 10)
University of Exeter
Royal Historical Society (fellow|1999)
British Academy (fellow|2009)
Australian Academy of the Humanities (fellow|2013)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 11
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 148
- Popularité
- #140,180
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 29
Walsham's coverage is thorough, and the texture of the book is accordingly dense. Her material is thoroughly documented and she has made an extensive survey of the original sources.
There are few major surprises -- such as there are tend to appear in the latter part of the book, regarding invented traditions (she draws explicitly on Hobsbawm's The Invention of Tradition) -- for example, she is unable to find any evidence for the story of St. Joseph of Arimathea and the Glastonbury thorn prior to the Reformation. (Note that the story of St. Joseph visiting Britain is earlier (it's in some of the Lancelot cycle, IIRC) but the specific link with Glastonbury, and with the Christmas-flowering thorn, is later.) However, her accumulation of details not only fills out the broadly expected narrative but provides evidence of the complexity of detail and local variation within the broadly expected outlines.… (plus d'informations)