The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, c. 1400-c. 1580.
@article{Duffy1993TheSO, title={The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, c. 1400-c. 1580.}, author={E. Duffy}, journal={The Eighteenth Century}, year={1993}, volume={24}, pages={224} }
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 tradition, and that the Reformation represented a violent rupture from a popular and theologically respectable religious system. For this edition, Duffy has written a new Preface reflecting on recent developments in our understanding of the period. From… Expand