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Christianity: Faith, Scripture and Tradition

The Stripping of the Altars

Traditional Religion in England, c. 1400–c. 1580

by Eamon Duffy

A detailed portrait of late medieval English Catholicism and its destruction during the Reformation. Duffy argues that traditional religion was vigorous and popular rather than decayed, and the book transformed the study of the English Reformation.

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