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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
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Recreating lay people’s experience of the religion of the pre-Reformation church, this text argues that late-medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a strong & vigorous tradition, & that the Reformation represented a violent rupture from a popular & thoroughly respectable religious system.
| Weight | 0.758 kg |
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| Dimensions | 21.6 × 14 × 5.1 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 720 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | New edition |
| Dewey | 274.205 (edition:23) |
| Readership | Professional and scholarly / Code: H |
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