The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580

Type

Book

Authors

Eamon Duffy

ISBN 10

0300108281

ISBN 13

9780300108286

Tags

Church History, History, Christianity, General

Description

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 Amzon

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