The Stripping of the Altars
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The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400–1580 is a work of history covering late medieval Catholicism and the English Reformation, written by Eamon Duffy and published in 199
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The Catholic Church in England and Wales is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See. Its origins date from the 6th century, when Pope Gregory I through a Roman missio
The Stripping of the Altars
…Eamon Duffy Upon its publication, the book was hailed by many as an original and persuasive account of English Catholicism in the Late Middle Ages. Writing in The New York Review of Books, British historian Maurice Keen stated, Perhaps it takes an Irishman to offer Englishmen…
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