Author: 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