Abstract This chapter examines memory and its transmutations over the course of the several generations that experienced England’s plural and contested Reformations. It investigates shifting commemorative practices, including the creation of memorials and monuments to past generations and the spiritual legacies that the dying left to the living. It examines the impulses that led men and women to record the dramatic religious changes they had witnessed and in which they had participated, and the textual and material forms in which they transmitted these recollections to posterity as heirlooms. It explores what people strategically forgot as well as what they selectively remembered; how they retrospectively edited their own life stories as their religious and cultural preoccupations changed over time; and the manner in which events passed out of living memory and entered into the realm of inherited legend. The chapter also evaluates the role of generational transmission in creating the very archives, libraries, and museums through which our own knowledge of the Reformation past is filtered, and the interpretative paradigms that shape how we analyse this period.

Category	Quartile
社会学	4
社会学, 老年医学	4

Memory and Archive

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