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Title: The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, C.1400-C.1580 by Eamon Duffy ISBN: 0-300-06076-9 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.15 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: More evidence that history really is written by the victors.
Comment: Mr. Duffy's book was, in many ways, shocking, but mostly for its decisive demonstration that the popularly understood motives for the English Reformation are in fact grossly MIS-understood. The English were by and large Catholic, and happily so, but their "betters" wanted to better themselves, and that background informs this text well. Also see Michael Wood's mini-series "In Search of Shakespeare" (with companion book), where some on-sight investigation by Mr. Wood reveal the Catholic background of so much of Elizabethan England. And don't forget your Belloc, either. Wood and Belloc would find this book unsurprising in its conclusions.
It ought to be said that what happened to Catholicism in England could, and, with Vatican II, very well might, occur again...
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating, wonderful, and thought provoking.
Comment: This is the most enjoyable book I've read in the last five years. I learned so much about what the church was like in England before the Reformation. There was so much of this I didn't know, and finding it out was like recovering a long-lost treasure. The details are marvellous.
Reading about the changes which came about in the reigns of HenryVIIIth, Edward, Mary, and Elizabeth was extremely informative. Now I understand how the reformers and the monarchs who supported them managed to change the church of England from the Catholic church it was into a very different, and very protestant organisation.
Whether you have religious inclinations or not, this book is a great read. At the very least, you'll like reading about this period in history.
If you're an Anglican, you might be particularly fascinated to read about what your church was like before the Reformation. I was, and I think we lost a lot of the richness of traditional worship when Cramner et all came along and ripped away so many beautiful traditions from the church.
I am very grateful to Eamon Duffy for writing such a detailed account, and for making it all such a great read.
Rating: 4
Summary: weep, weep, o Walsingham...
Comment: Eamon Duffy is hell-bent to demonstrate the meaning and legitimacy of traditional English piety, and succeeds by and large with smart scholarship, winningly original ideas, and fret-free, up-tempo prose. The book wears well a mediaevalist scholar's sympathetic penchant for the full color world of his subject; you have no trouble entering Duffy's exotic world. He knocks down the calumny of 'superstition' by REVEALING it with teaching. The Henrician religious revolution is exactingly covered, but forget your mild English sentiments here; the author means to prove his point and does relentlessly. England's masses did NOT rise up and demand what the King unfortunately demanded! Some of the local evidence unearthed by Duffy is among the most compelling in providing armament for his argument that Roman piety remained the daily staple of the common Englishman even as revolution was imposed by royal will. The last section --The Attack on Traditional Religion-- (including a final segment on Elizabeth I) is the best in the book- arguments are focused in, & the prose is clean and responsive. The book is a huge achievment, even at 650+ pages! A fetching bibliography provides extensive evidence of the openness of Duffy's scholarship, and is fascinating marginalia in its own right. Photo of the vandalised bas relief of the mass Sacrifice on the cover is completely moving. No faint-hearted history allowed.
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Title: The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village by Eamon Duffy ISBN: 0300098251 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Thomas Cranmer: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch ISBN: 0300074484 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Boy King: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch ISBN: 0312238304 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: English Reformations: Religion, Politics, and Society Under the Tudors by Christopher Haigh ISBN: 0198221622 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch ISBN: 0670032964 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 03 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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