Authors: Eamon Duffy
ISBN-13: 9780300108286, ISBN-10: 0300108281
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: April 2005
Edition: Second Edition
Eamon Duffy is Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge and President of Magdalene College. He is the author of Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes and The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village, both available in paperback from Yale University Press.
This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion in fifteenth-century England. Eamon Duffy shows that late medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a strong and vigorous tradition, and that the Reformation represented a violent rupture from a popular and theologically respectable religious system. For this edition, Duffy has written a new Preface reflecting on recent developments in our understanding of the period.
From reviews of the first edition:
A magnificent scholarly achievement [and] a compelling read.”Patricia Morrison, Financial Times
Deeply imaginative, movingly written, and splendidly illustrated. . . . Duffy’s analysis . . . carries conviction.”Maurice Keen, New York Review of Books
This book will afford enjoyment and enlightenment to layman and specialist alike.”Peter Heath, Times Literary Supplement
[An] astonishing and magnificent piece of work.”Edward T. Oakes, Commonweal
Duffy's 1992 chronicle of religions in 15th- and 16th-century England snagged the Longman-History of Today Book of the Year Award and kudos from reviewers. This heavily illustrated edition includes a lengthy new intro by Duffy, who also updates the text. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Pt. I | The structures of traditional religion | 9 |
1 | Seasons and signs : the liturgical year | 11 |
2 | How the plowman learned his Paternoster | 53 |
3 | The Mass | 91 |
4 | Corporate Christians | 131 |
5 | The saints | 155 |
6 | "Lewed and learned" : the laity and the Primers | 209 |
7 | The devotions of the Primers | 233 |
8 | Charms, pardons and promises : lay piety and "superstition" in the Primers | 266 |
9 | Last things | 301 |
10 | The pains of purgatory | 338 |
Pt. II | The stripping of the altars, 1530-1580 | 377 |
11 | The attack on traditional religion I : from the break with Rome to the Act of Six Articles | 379 |
12 | The attack on traditional religion II : to the death of Henry VIII | 424 |
13 | The attack on traditional religion III : the reign of Edward VI | 448 |
14 | The impact of reform : parishes | 478 |
15 | The impact of reform : wills | 504 |
16 | Mary | 524 |
17 | Elizabeth | 565 |