Eamon Duffy is a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and the author of The Voices of Morebath,Fires of Faith,Marking the Hours,Saints and Sinners, and Ten Popes Who Shook the World.
"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
"Duffy wants to show the vitality and appeal of late medieval
Catholicism; and to prove that it exerted a diverse and vigorous
hold over the imagination and loyalty of the people up to the very
moment of Reformation. He suceeds triumphantly."—Susan Brigden,
London Review of Books
"Deeply imaginative, movingly written, and splendidly
illustrated."—Maurice Keen, New York Review of Books
"[This book] at last gives the culture of the late Middle Ages in
England its due, and helps us to see the period as it was and not
as Protestant reformers and their intellectual descendants imagined
it to be. . . . A monumental and deeply felt work."—Gabriel
Josipovici, Times Literary Supplement
"Sensitively written and beautifully produced, this book represents
a major contribution to the Reformation debate."—Norman Tanner, The
Times, London
"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. J. Scarisbrick, The
Tablet
"This book will afford enjoyment and enlightenment to layman and
specialist alike. Duffy sweeps the reader along through its six
hundred pages by a style which eschews both jargon and pedantry, by
his lively and absorbing detail, his piercing insights, patient
analysis, and his vigor in debate."—Peter Heath, Times Literary
Supplement
"Unfailingly temperate, judicious, and scholarly. . . . [The book]
has a fascinating story to tell."—James Bowman, The Sunday
Telegraph
"The first serious attempt by a historian to restore Mary's
reputation in more than four hundred years."—Simon Denison, The
Sunday Telegraph
"Duffy offers an unrivaled picture of late medieval parochial
religion, with all its ritual symbolism and visual imagery."—Keith
Thomas, The Observer
"Anyone interested in the liturgy and buildings of the church, or
in the vivid lay participation in religious life of the later
middle ages, will find the book an inspiration, and should read it
with the utmost care."—Dorothy M. Owen, Lincolnshire History and
Archaeology
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