The Stripping of the Altars. Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580, New ed, Paperback - Eamon Duffy

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Eamon DuffyIllustration(s): 143 b-w illus.Number of pages: 720Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 x 21...

A concise synthesis of recent research which has transformed our view of religious belief and practice in pre-Reformation England.Publisher: Taylor...

As an authority on the religion of medieval and early modern England, Eamon Duffy is preeminent. In his revisionist masterpiece The Stripping of th...

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Explores how church disciplinary practices gendered Puritanism and challenged ideas of ministers. Laymen punished men for public behavior that thre...

Eamon Duffy returns to the themes of his popular book }The Stripping Of The Altars{ in this exploration of Christianity in medieval England, addres...

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This volume elucidates the craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes of scribes of late medieval English manuscripts to students...

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