Showing The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 by Eamon Duffy

Paperback. Pub Date :2005-03-01 Pages: 608 Language: English Publisher:. Yale University Press 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.