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Recreating lay people's experience of the religion of the pre-Reformation church, this text argues that late-medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a strong & vigorous tradition, & that the Reformation represented a violent rupture from a popular & thoroughly respectable religious system. Previous ed.: 1992.
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- Author
- Eamon Duffy
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300108286
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Christian, Fiction, World History
- Rating
- 4.22 / 5 (660 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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