The Stripping of the Altars
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Sell my copyAuthor: Eamon Duffy
Title: The Stripping of the Altars
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 720
Release Date: 2022-07-12
Details: 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
EAN: 9780300254419
Package Dimensions: Height: 8.45 Inches, Length: 5.41 Inches, Weight: 1.69976404002 Pounds, Width: 1.93 Inches
