Susan Guinn-Chipman - Religious Space in Reformation England: Contesting the Past

RELIGIOUS SPACE IN REFORMATION ENGLAND: CONTESTING THE PAST

RELIGIOUS CULTURES IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD

TITLES IN THIS SERIES

1 Possession, Puritanism and Print: Darrell, Harsnett, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Exorcism Controversy

Marion Gibson

2 Visions of an Unseen World: Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth-Century England

Sasha Handley

3 Diabolism in Colonial Peru, 15601750

Andrew Redden

4 Sacred History and National Identity: Comparisons between Early Modern Wales and Brittany

Jason Nice

5 Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany

Jennifer Spinks

6 The Religious Culture of Marian England

David Loades

7 Angels and Belief in England, 14801700

Laura Sangha

8 The Laudians and the Elizabethan Church: History, Conformity and Religious Identity in Post-Reformation England

Calvin Lane

FORTHCOMING TITLES

Anglo-German Relations and the Protestant Cause: Elizabethan Foreign

Policy and Pan-Protestantism

David Scott Gehring

John Bale and Religious Conversion in Reformation England

Oliver Wort

Celestial Wonders in Reformation Germany

Ken Kurihara

Religious Diaspora in Early Modern Europe: Strategies of Exile

Timothy Fehler, Greta Kroeker, Charles Parker and Jonathan Ray (eds)

Jews and the Renaissance of Synagogue Architecture, 14501750

Barry Stiefel

Images of Islam, 14531600: Turks in Germany and Central Europe

Charlotte Colding Smith

RELIGIOUS SPACE IN REFORMATION ENGLAND: CONTESTING THE PAST

BY

Susan Guinn-Chipman

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Guinn-Chipman, Susan, author.

Religious space in Reformation England: contesting the past. (Religious cultures in the early modern world)

1. Wiltshire (England) Church history 16th century. 2. Cheshire (England)

Church history 16th century. 3. Wiltshire (England) Church history

17th century. 4. Cheshire (England) Church history 17th century.

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274.23106-dc23

ISBN-13: 978-1-84893-283-8 (hbk)

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I have accumulated many debts of gratitude in the process of my research, which has been focused on the interplay of memory and space in early modern England. Travel to Britain was funded in large part by J. D. A. Ogilvy Travel Fellowships in British and Irish Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder and by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which enabled me to attend the Culture, Space and Power: Peopling the Built Environment in Renaissance England, c. 14501700 workshop held at the University of Warwick. In Britain, the archivists, librarians and personnel of the National Archives, the British Library, the Bodleian Library, the Society of Antiquaries, London, Cheshire Archives and Local Studies, the Wiltshire and Swindon Archives, the Wiltshire Heritage Museum Archive and Library, the Lancashire Archives and the Wigan Archives Service have been extraordinarily helpful over the course of my research. I am additionally grateful to Mrs Sarah Callander Beckett of Combermere Abbey and Mr Alastair Griffiths of Vale Royal Abbey for sharing their knowledge of each of these former religious houses and for their gracious hospitality. The British and Irish Studies Research Collection at the University of Colorado made possible extensive research in Boulder. I would like to extend sincere thanks to the librarians and staff of the departments of Archives and Special Collections, Government Information, Interlibrary Loan, Libraries Information Technology and the former Media Library for their tireless, cheerful assistance. Additionally, I would like to express my appreciation to all at Pickering & Chatto, including Daire Carr, Philip Good, Eleanor Hooker, Stephina Clarke and Frances Lubbe.

I would like to offer the warmest appreciation to a number of scholars for their support throughout this project. I have been exceptionally fortunate in this process to have had the friendship and guidance of my advisor Marjorie McIntosh. I have benefitted tremendously from her generosity, wisdom and clarity of thought. I am also indebted to a number of others, whose thoughts have contributed significantly to this work. Special thanks go to Matthew Gerber, Virginia Anderson, David Gross, Beth Robertson, Paul Hammer, James Jankowski and David OHara, all of whom have provided their much appreciated expertise. I would also like to extend special thanks to Steve Hindle and Beat Kmin as well as to the speakers and participants of the Culture, Space and Power workshop, who provided a warm and engaging atmosphere in which to study the interrelationship of people, space, practice and theory. Sincere appreciation also goes to Peter Marshall, Norman Jones and Judith Maltby for their insightful comments and expertise. Susan Cogan, Jenn McNabb, Anne Vonhoff, Eloina Villegas, Stephan Edwards and Emily Allen-Shaw offered support and shared their thoughts, always with an abundance of good will and good humour. Sincere thanks also to Marjorie McIntosh, Lis Brown, Shirl Kasper, Susan Cogan and David OHara, who have shown extraordinary patience in listening to ideas, reading drafts and providing valuable insights. My appreciation also goes to my friends and colleagues at Colorado State University for their encouragement and support.

I owe a great number of personal debts. I am extremely grateful to my friend and colleague Deborah Hollis and to friends and colleagues past and present Kris McCusker, Chris Levine, Elizabeth Newsom, Greg Robl, Amanda Brown, and others in the Department of Archives and Special Collections at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Without their support and good cheer, the completion of this project would not have been possible. On a more personal note, my friends and family have provided me with continual warmth and support throughout this process. I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to my family. A lifetime of immersion in art and architecture, for which I am forever indebted to my parents and to my sister, Julie, led to this project. I owe my sincerest thanks to Michael and to my daughters for their unwavering support and encouragement. Jenn and Katie, your lives have unfolded with such grace while I have been on this journey. This book is dedicated to you.