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

Author: Eamon Duffy

Narrator: Nigel Patterson

Unabridged: 28 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/28/2023


Synopsis

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.

About Eamon Duffy

Eamon Duffy is a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and the author of The Voices of Morebath, Fires of Faith, Marking the Hours, Saints and Sinners, and Ten Popes Who Shook the World.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Katie on July 25, 2011

Hugely, hugely detailed book that does a very nice job of critiquing what had been the prevailing viewpoint of the English Reformation: that medieval Catholicism had petered out, with disinterested clerics and semi-pagan peasants only revitalized by the influence of Protestant reform. It's an inaccu......more

Goodreads review by Patricia on June 13, 2018

First he rebuilds for us the way the English Medieval churches worked, packed tight with altars, figures of saints, rich reliquaries (caskets) for alleged saints' bones and teeth, elaborate roodscreens to hide the high altar, paintings and jewelled and embroidered banners. Churches must have looked......more

Goodreads review by Chris on April 05, 2010

Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England c. 1400-1580. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. In The Stripping of the Altars, Eamon Duffy lays down a formidable challenge to long-held notions of the Protestant Reformation in England. He upsets a conventional narrati......more

Goodreads review by Jarrett on August 02, 2024

This 600-page behemoth is the best book on the Reformation I have ever read. Duffy enchants you with the profoundly powerful spiritual life of Late Medieval English Christianity and then takes you through the royal roller coaster that was the Tudor dynasty. The typical story of the English Reformati......more

Goodreads review by Charity on January 14, 2016

Very informative. Intense reading. Lots of details. Skimmed portions that had no relevance to my research but overall it was insightful in shedding light into middle ages Catholicism. The chapter on Mary I was particularly illuminating -- and went some little way in restoring her reputation.......more