• Introduction


• 1: Loca Sacra: Religion and the Landscape before the Reformation


• 2: Idols in the Landscape: The Impact of Protestant Reform


• 3: Britannia Sancta: Catholicism, Counter Reformation and the Landscape


• 4: The Religious Regeneration of the Landscape: Ritual, Rehabilitation and Renewal


• 5: God's Great Book in Folio: Providence, Science and the Natural Environment


• 6: Therapeutic Waters: Religion, Medicine and the Landscape


• 7: Invented Traditions: Legend, Custom, and Memory


• Conclusion


• Bibliography of Primary Sources

Alexandra Walsham was educated at the Universities of Melbourne and Cambridge. After completing her doctorate, she held a research fellowship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, prior to her appointment as Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter in 1996. Until recently she was Professor of Reformation History and Head of Department at Exeter. In September 2010 she took up the post of Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge. She is a fellow of Trinity College and of the British Academy.

The Reformation of the Landscape is a richly detailed and original study of the relationship between the landscape of Britain and Ireland and the tumultuous religious changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.