Generations

The publication of Generations... is something of an event in the writing of early modern history... An impressive contribution to early modern history-writing... becomes also a message for the whole discipline. * Ronald Hutton, Times Literary Supplement *
magisterial... there is much to be gained in thinking about how different experiences and emotional dynamics drove tensions between... Generation Calvin and Generation Laud. * Matthew Lyon, The Critic *
[an] extraordinary achievement... a work of formidable scholarship, and a deeply humane and fascinating read... a profoundly sympathetic but also penetrating analysis of the lived religious experience of early modern men, women and children, as they moved through their own life cycles, through the life cycles of their religious churches and communities... this book testifies to the ways in which the history of the English Reformation is itself coming of age. * Lucy Wooding, The Tablet *
Generations is an outstanding achievement... an enormously instructive, richly illustrated and deeply stimulating scholarly contribution that asks and examines key questions about age, ancestry and memory amidst the fundamental religious, political and cultural changes that now call England's Reformations ... superb ... All those wishing to read an outstanding 'social and cultural history of religion with the theology put back' should start with this book. * John Craig, Church History *
No short review can do justice to the richness (and the riches) of this study... The result is a book that makes a profound contribution to our understanding of ... England's "long Reformation". Its deep insights into the dynamics of religious and cultural change during the early modern era in England and beyond offer a stimulus and guide to all scholars engaged in research into the wide range of themes and topics it addresses. Generations is a major achievement. * David Harris Sacks, Renaissance Quarterly *
[a] massive work of imaginative scholarship... No attempt at a brief summary of this book's main arguments can do justice to the subtle sensitivity of its author's discourse or the complex interweaving of its themes... a ground-breaking discussion of the theme of generations, it also succeeds in throwing fresh light on the much-studied English Reformations. * Ralph Houlbrooke, Cultural and Social History *
It is hard to do justice to such a rich and thought-provoking study in a short review... This is a book that one can turn to again and again for informative commentary and new insights into a whole variety of themes… * Richard Cust, Midland History *
Walsham, with her usual originality and ability to pick out the important patterns from a vast array of evidence, makes here a major intervention into the historiography. * Diarmaid MacCulloch, Common Knowledge *