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Reformation Divided: Catholics, Protestants and the Conversion of England
Eamon Duffy
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Description for Reformation Divided: Catholics, Protestants and the Conversion of England
Hardcover. Num Pages: 448 pages, No illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HRCC2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 164 x 42. Weight in Grams: 790.
Published to mark the 500th anniversary of the events of 1517, Reformation Divided explores the impact in England of the cataclysmic transformations of European Christianity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The religious revolution initiated by Martin Luther is usually referred to as `The Reformation', a tendentious description implying that the shattering of the medieval religious foundations of Europe was a single process, in which a defective form of Christianity was replaced by one that was unequivocally benign, `the midwife of the modern world'. The book challenges these assumptions by tracing the ways in which the project of reforming Christendom ... Read more
Published to mark the 500th anniversary of the events of 1517, Reformation Divided explores the impact in England of the cataclysmic transformations of European Christianity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The religious revolution initiated by Martin Luther is usually referred to as `The Reformation', a tendentious description implying that the shattering of the medieval religious foundations of Europe was a single process, in which a defective form of Christianity was replaced by one that was unequivocally benign, `the midwife of the modern world'. The book challenges these assumptions by tracing the ways in which the project of reforming Christendom ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472934369
SKU
V9781472934369
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About Eamon Duffy
Professor Eamon Duffy is Emeritus Professor of Christian History at the University of Cambridge and a past president of Magdalene College. His previous books include The Stripping of the Altars (Yale University Press) and Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition (Bloomsbury Continuum).
Reviews for Reformation Divided: Catholics, Protestants and the Conversion of England
The most readable of this year's crop of anniversary books ... Eamon Duffy [is] the doyen of Reformation historians
Christopher Howse, Spectator Books of the Year, 2017
Another blockbuster arrives from the professor (emeritus) of Christian history at Cambridge ... a galaxy of clever offerings ... This is a must read for any serious student of Reformation and ... Read more
Christopher Howse, Spectator Books of the Year, 2017
Another blockbuster arrives from the professor (emeritus) of Christian history at Cambridge ... a galaxy of clever offerings ... This is a must read for any serious student of Reformation and ... Read more