The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 by Eamon Duffy

The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580

Eamon Duffy

700 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history religion informative sad slow-paced
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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 t...

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