The Archaeology of Reformation,1480-1580

David Gaimster

This book demonstrates the potential of the discipline to contribute to Reformation studies in 1480-1580. It is the result of the second joint conference of the Society for Medieval Archaeology and the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology.

Introduction Public Worship and Iconoclasm 1. Public Worship and Iconoclasm 2. Iconoclasm and Adaptation: The Reformation of the Churches in Scotland and the Netherlands 3. The Catholic Reformation and the Parish: The Church of Saint Thégonnec (Finistére, France) 1550-1700 4. Fixtures or Fittings? Can Surviving Pre-Reformation Ecclesiastical Material Culture be Used as a Barometer of Contemporary Attitudes to the Reformation in England? 5. The Reformation and Unfinished Churches in Finland 6. Reformation of What? Whose and Which Reformation is Exposed in Danish Wall-Paintings? 7. The Wall-Paintings of Sulsted Church, Denmark: Between The Middle Ages and the Reformation? Private Devotion and Material Culture 8. Reformation and Transformation: What Happened to Catholic Things in a Protestant World? 9. Pots, Prints and Protestantism: Changing Mentalities in the Urban Domestic Sphere, c. 1480-1580 10. The Archaeology of Viceregality: Charles Brandon's Brief Rule in Lincolnshire 11. Nicholas Poyntz and Acton Court: A Reformer's Architecture 12. From Popular Devotion to Resistance and Revival in England: The Cult of the Holy Name of Jesus and the Reformation* 13. Public Worship, Private Devotion: The Crypto-Jews of Reformation England Dissolutionl And Scapes and Secular Power 14. Recycling the Monastic Fabric: Beyond the Act of Dissolution 15. Monastic Architecture: Destruction and Reconstruction 16. Northern Ireland: The Afterlife of Monastic Buildings 17. Dissolution or Reformation? A Case Study from Chester's Urban Landscape 18. The Conversion of Former Monastic Buildings to Secular Use: The Case of Coventry 19. Tenements in London's Monasteries c. 1450-1540 20. The Houses of Henry VIII's Courtiers in London 21. Some Aspects of the Reformation of Religious Space in London, 1540-1660 Corporate Charity and Reformation 22. Reforming Corporate Charity: Guilds and Fraternities in Pre- and Post-Reformation York 23. Deconstructing a Symbolic World: The Reformation and the English Medieval Parish Chantry 24. John Carpenter's Library: Corporate Charity and London's Guildhall 25. The London Merchant Taylors Burial and Commemoration 26. Choices and Changes: Death, Burial and the English Reformation 27. Dust to Dust': Revealing the Reformation Dead 28. A Protestant Habitus: 16th-Century Danish Graveslabs as an Expression of Changes in Belief 29. A Reformation of Meaning: Commemoration and Remembering the Dead in the Parish Church, 1450-1640 30. Tombs of Brass are Spent: Reformation Reuse of Monumental Brasses