Description
| Product ID: | 9780300254419 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | The Stripping of the Altars |
| Subtitle: | Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 |
| Authors: | Author: Eamon Duffy |
| Page Count: | 720 |
| Subjects: | History, History, History of religion, Christianity, History of religion, Christianity |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion, showing that late-medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but a strong and vigorous tradition. For this edition, Duffy has written a new introduction reflecting on recent developments in our understanding of the period. “A mighty and momentous book: a book to be read and re-read, pondered and revered; a subtle, profound book written with passion and eloquence, and with masterly control.”—J. J. Scarisbrick, The Tablet “Revisionist history at its most imaginative and exciting. . . . [An] astonishing and magnificent piece of work.”—Edward T. Oakes, Commonweal “A magnificent scholarly achievement, a compelling read, and not a page too long to defend a thesis which will provoke passionate debate.”—Patricia Morison, Financial Times “Deeply imaginative, movingly written, and splendidly illustrated.”—Maurice Keen, New York Review of Books Winner of the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award |
| Imprint Name: | Yale University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Yale University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-05-10 |