![]() His wonderful books, notably The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 (1992), successfully challenged simple accounts of the English Reformation as a liberation, personal and national, from superstition and the obfuscations of corrupt and worldly priests stressing instead enduring commitment to the worship and rituals of the Catholic church. ![]() ![]() To some of us…it looks rather as if it had those feet shot out from under it.”ĭuffy is among those rare historians whose research has completely reoriented their field. Dickens thought that “late medieval Christianity was ailing and played out, and that as a result it had died on its feet. In one of the essays collected here, Eamon Duffy writes that the Reformation historian A. G. ![]()
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