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
- ISBN10 0300108281
- ISBN13 9780300108286
- Publish Date 10 May 2005 (first published 23 December 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 March 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 700
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9780300108286