A people's tragedy : studies in reformation

Duffy, Eamon, author.

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Duffy's focus has always been on the practices and institutions through which ordinary people lived and experienced their religion, but which the Protestant reformers abolished as idolatry and superstition. The first part of A People's Tragedy examines the two most important of these institutions: the rise and fall of pilgrimage to the cathedral shrines of England, and the destruction of the monasteries under Henry VIII, as exemplified by the dis...

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England Church history 16th century

England Religious life and customs

Reformation England

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ISBN:

9781472983855

Description:

264 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Part I. Studies in Reformation :
1. Cathedral pilgrimage : the late Middle Ages
2. The dissolution of Ely Priory
3. 1569 : a people's tragedy?
4. Douai, Rheims and the Counter-Reformation-- 5. The King James Bible
6. Richard Baxter, reminiscent
Part II. Writing the Reformation :
7. Luther through Catholic eyes
8. James Anthony Froude and the reign of Queen Mary
9. A. G. Dickens and the medieval church
10. Walsingham : Reformation and reconstruction --11. Writing the Reformation : fiction and faction

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3047579

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