1st Edition
The Monuments of Westminster Abbey Power and Memory in Early Modern Britain
By Peter Sherlock
Copyright 2026
238 Pages
8 Color & 24 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
238 Pages
8 Color & 24 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
238 Pages
8 Color & 24 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This is the first critical history of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century monuments of Westminster Abbey. It explains how the Abbey was transformed from a monastery with royal tombs into one of the most popular sites of commemoration in early modern Europe. It shows the extraordinary impact of the Reformation and the civil wars on the monuments at Westminster Abbey. The book includes accounts... Read more
Introduction
Chapter 1
Stairway to Heaven
Chapter 2
Resurrection
Chapter 3
Republic of Memory
Chapter 4
Royal Dust
Chapter 5
Wits to Read
Chapter 6
Dulce et Decorum
Chapter 7
Entertaining Memory
Chapter 8
Habits of Memory
Biography
Peter Sherlock is Professor at Charles Sturt University, Australia, and was previously Foundation Vice-Chancellor of the University of Divinity. An internationally recognised expert on history, memory, and commemoration in Reformation and Renaissance Europe, he is the author of Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England (2008).
