Providence in Early Modern England
`This is a brilliant book by an outstanding young scholar' American Historical Review`This extraordinarily rich and subtle book represents a major addition to a burgeoning scholarship on the inculturation of the English Reformation.  The specificity of the subject matter belies the scope of the treatment.' Peter Marshall, University of Warwick, Ecclesiastical History Vol 51/4`In the course of an extremely broad-ranging discussion, various cultural paradigms of medieval Christianity are shown emerging in a new Protestant guise ... Most impressive is Walsham's remarkable forensic work on Protestant encyclopedias of providential punishments.' Peter Marshall, University of Warwick, Ecclesiastical History Vol 51/4`Walsham's footnotes display an awesome command of contemporary printed sources and of modern scholarship in a variety of disciplines.  The importance of particular episodes in shaping and exemplifying an understanding of the workings of providence is brought out with great skill.' Peter Marshall, University of Warwick, Ecclesiastical History Vol 51/4`Despite the force and clarity of the thesis, there is throughout a welcome absence of dogmatism, and an openness to alternative readings.' Peter Marshall, University of Warwick, Ecclesiastical History Vol 51/4`Superbly written, and refreshingly free of modish jargon and intrusive theorising, Walsham's book is a model for those historians still struggling to say something meaningful and comprehensible about the patterns of cultural change in early modern England.' Peter Marshall, University of Warwick, Ecclesiastical History Vol 51/4`Dr Walsham has produced an excellent study, learned, bold, sensitive, fluent, controlled, rich and astonishingly widely-researched.'  Christopher Haigh, EHR Sept. 00. Vol.115, No.463.`chapters packed with densely detailed information yet with never a dull page.' Janet L. Nelson, History Today, May 2000.`readers will keep turning the pages eagerly with mingled awe, fascination, and, yes, a keen sense of timeliness. This is a book about the past that resonates in the present.' Janet L. Nelson, History Today, May 2000.`Waltham has written a religious and cultural history of Early Modern England that is inclusive and alternative at the same time.  It's an extraordinarily ambitious work, with a humanity, wisdom, and balance.' Janet L. Nelson, History Today, May 2000.