The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580
Eamon Duffy, "The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580"
English | ISBN: 0300254415 | 2022 | 720 pages | PDF | 58 MB
English | ISBN: 0300254415 | 2022 | 720 pages | PDF | 58 MB
This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion, showing that late-medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but a strong and vigorous tradition. For this edition, Duffy has written a new introduction reflecting on recent developments in our understanding of the period.
“A mighty and momentous book: a book to be read and re-read, pondered and revered; a subtle, profound book written with passion and eloquence, and with masterly control.”—J. J. Scarisbrick, The Tablet
“Revisionist history at its most imaginative and exciting. . . . [An] astonishing and magnificent piece of work.”—Edward T. Oakes,
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