Authors: Eamon Duffy
ISBN-13: 9780300098259, ISBN-10: 0300098251
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: July 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
This delightful book offers a rare glimpse of life in a remote sixteenth-century English village during the dramatic changes of the Reformation. Through vividly detailed parish records kept from 1520 to 1574 by Sir Christopher Trychay, the garrulous priest of Morebath, we see how a tiny Catholic community rebelled, was punished, and reluctantly accepted Protestantism under the demands of the Elizabethan state."Significant and striking."-Peter Ackroyd, The Times (London); "A vivid piece of microhistory . . . a rich and often witty portrait."-Alexandra Walsham, History; "This book is a gem: small, colourful, many-faceted."-Lucy Wooding, Reviews in History; "Stories like the one Duffy skillfully tells here, for historian and general reader alike . . . bear remembering." -Paul Lewis, New York Times Book Review
Author Biography: Eamon Duffy is professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge and president of Magdalene College. His previous books include The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580, and Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes, both published by Yale University Press.
Winner of the Hawthornden Prize for Literature
Stories like the one Duffy skillfully tells here, for historian and general reader alike. . . bear remembering.
Acknowledgements | ix | |
A note on names and spelling | x | |
Preface | xiii | |
1 | A Place Apart | 1 |
2 | The Voices of Morebath | 17 |
3 | The Pursuit of Peace | 47 |
4 | The Piety of Morebath | 65 |
5 | Banishing Saint Sidwell | 84 |
6 | Morebath Dismantled | 111 |
7 | Under Two Queens | 153 |
Appendix | The Wardens of Morebath | 191 |
Bibliography | 200 | |
Notes | 209 | |
Index | 225 |