The Blind Devotion of the People: Popular Religion and the English Reformation By Robert Whiting
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 1991 | 316 Pages | ISBN: 0521424399 | PDF | 7 MB
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 1991 | 316 Pages | ISBN: 0521424399 | PDF | 7 MB
'Not for a long time has such a wealth of evidence upon popular religion at the Reformation been collected, nor so meticulously organized ... No one interested in the Reformation should miss this scholarly and significant book.' Susan Brigden, The Times Higher Education Supplement '[The Blind Devotion of the People] delves down beyond the landed elite into the ranks of 'ordinary' people. It uses endowments and architecture, drama and writing, to brilliant effect ... Its thumbnail sketches are superb ... This is a rounded and convincing, and often moving, analysis of a society faced with the shattering of its traditions, deeply enjoyable to read. And it is a model of what could and should be done with that most fascinating and elusive of historical problems.' Jenny Wormald, The Glasgow Herald