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
"Deeply imaginative, movingly written, and splendidly
illustrated."—Maurice Keen, New York Review of Books
"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
"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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