"A magnificent scholarly achievement, a compelling read, and not a page too long to defend a thesis which will provoke passionate debate."-Patricia Morison, Financial Times Winner of the Longman- History Today Book of the Year Award “Deeply imaginative, movingly written, and splendidly illustrated.”-Maurice Keen, New York Review of Books “A magnificent scholarly achievement, a compelling read, and not a page too long to defend a thesis which will provoke passionate debate.”-Patricia Morison, Financial Times astonishing and magnificent piece of work.”-Edward T.
“Revisionist history at its most imaginative and exciting. “A mighty and momentous book: a book to be read and re-read, pondered and revered a subtle, profound book written with passion and eloquence, and with masterly control.”-J.
For this edition, Duffy has written a new introduction reflecting on recent developments in our understanding of the period. This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion, showing that late-medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but a strong and vigorous tradition.
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