This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people¿s experience of religion, showing that late-medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but a strong and vigorous tradition. For this edition, Duffy has written a new introduction reflecting on recent developments in our understanding of the period. ¿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 ¿Revisionist history at its most imaginative and exciting. . . . [An] astonishing and magnificent piece of work.¿¿Edward T. Oakes, Commonweal ¿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 Winner of the Longman-History Today Bo
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