Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition

Eamon Duffy is Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Fellow of Magdalene College. His most recent book was Fires of Faith (Yale UP, 2009).

Mentioned in the Church Times' "new titles just published" section. -- Frank Nugent, of the Church House Bookshop, which operates the Church Times Bookshop Church Times This book is a collection of essays on various aspects of early modern English religion which Duffy has written over the past fifteen years, complemented by a few previously unpublished pieces. Collections like that can be annoyingly miscellaneous, but here the stronger impression is of the unity of his body of work. A series of strong, consistent ideas emerges. Nobody who knows Duffy's robust approach to the Reformation will be surprised by anything that is here, but they will still find it worth reading. -- Alec Ryrie, Durham University Theology

• I. Reformation Unravelled \ Introduction \ 1. Reformation, Counter-reformation and the English nation \ 2. Reformation Unravelled: Facts and Fictions \ II. The Material Culture of Early Tudor Catholicism \ 3. The Parish, Piety and Patronage: the Evidence of Roodscreens \ 4. Salle Church and the Reformation \ 5. The End of It All: Medieval Church Goods and the 1552 Confiscations \ III. Two Cardinals \ 6. John Fisher and the Spirit of his Age \ 7. The Religion of John Fisher \ 8. Rome and Catholicity in mid-Tudor England \ 9. Cardinal Pole and Archbishop Cranmer \ IV. Catholic Voices \ 10. The Conservative Voice in the English Reformation \ 11. Remembering Catholicism in Shakespeare's England