A People's Tragedy: Studies in Reformation

As an authority on the religion of medieval and early modern England, Professor Eamon Duffy is preeminent.

In his revisionist masterpiece The Stripping of the Altars, Duffy opened up new areas of research and entirely fresh perspectives on the origin and progress of the English Reformation. Duffy's focus has always been on the practices and institutions through which ordinary people lived and experienced their religion, but which the Protestant reformers abolished as idolatry and superstitio...