The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580

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.

• Reformation Divided: Catholics, Protestants and the Conversion of England
• The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village
• Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor
• Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition
• English Reformations: Religion, Politics, and Society under the Tudors
• The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism
• The Return of Martin Guerre
• Autobiography of a Hunted Priest
• Greek Philosophy: Thales to Aristotle (Readings in the History of Philosophy)
• Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies