Ebook: The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580
Author: Eamon Duffy
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Language: English
- epub
This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion in fifteenth-century England. Eamon Duffy shows that late medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a strong and vigorous tradition, and that the Reformation represented a violent rupture from a popular and theologically respectable religious system. For this edition, Duffy has written a new Preface reflecting on recent developments in our understanding of the period.
From reviews of the first edition:
“A magnificent scholarly achievement [and] a compelling read.”―Patricia Morrison, Financial Times
“Deeply imaginative, movingly written, and splendidly illustrated. . . . Duffy’s analysis . . . carries conviction.”―Maurice Keen, New York Review of Books
“This book will afford enjoyment and enlightenment to layman and specialist alike.”―Peter Heath, Times Literary Supplement
“[An] astonishing and magnificent piece of work.”―Edward T. Oakes, Commonweal
From reviews of the first edition:
“A magnificent scholarly achievement [and] a compelling read.”―Patricia Morrison, Financial Times
“Deeply imaginative, movingly written, and splendidly illustrated. . . . Duffy’s analysis . . . carries conviction.”―Maurice Keen, New York Review of Books
“This book will afford enjoyment and enlightenment to layman and specialist alike.”―Peter Heath, Times Literary Supplement
“[An] astonishing and magnificent piece of work.”―Edward T. Oakes, Commonweal
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