November 06, 2009

Books

Quite Contrary

Fires of FaithCatholic England under Mary TudorEamon DuffyYale University Press, $28.50, 280 pp.

Brad S. Gregory

Eamon Duffy is perhaps best known to general readers as the author of Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes (1997), a one-volume history of the papacy from St. Peter to John Paul II. But in his particular field of expertise, Duffy has arguably done more than anyone else in the past two decades to revise our understanding of the English Reformation. In The Stripping of the (...)


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