Professor Eamon Duffy is Emeritus Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Magdalene College. He is the author of The Stripping of the Altars, Reformation Divided and Royal Books and Holy Bones and appears regularly on radio and television as an authority on religion and the Reformation in England.

Erudite, readable and acerbic ... [a] historian who, almost 40 years after publishing his first book, is still at the very top of his game.

• List of IllustrationsProloguePart One: Studies in Reformation1 Cathedral Pilgrimage: The Late Middle Ages2 The Dissolution of Ely Priory3 1569: A People's Tragedy4 Douai, Rheims and the Counter-Reformation5 The King James Bible6 Richard Baxter, ReminiscentPart Two: Writing the Reformation7 Luther Through Catholic Eyes8 James Anthony Froude and the Reign of Queen Mary9 A.G. Dickens and the Medieval Church10 Walsingham: Reformation and Reconstruction11 Writing the Reformation: Fiction and FactionNotesIndexPlates

Professor Eamon Duffy is Emeritus Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Magdalene College. He is the author of The Stripping of the Altars, Reformation Divided and Royal Books and Holy Bones and appears regularly on radio and television as an authority on religion and the Reformation in England.

Erudite, readable and acerbic ... [a] historian who, almost 40 years after publishing his first book, is still at the very top of his game.

• List of IllustrationsProloguePart One: Studies in Reformation1 Cathedral Pilgrimage: The Late Middle Ages2 The Dissolution of Ely Priory3 1569: A People's Tragedy4 Douai, Rheims and the Counter-Reformation5 The King James Bible6 Richard Baxter, ReminiscentPart Two: Writing the Reformation7 Luther Through Catholic Eyes8 James Anthony Froude and the Reign of Queen Mary9 A.G. Dickens and the Medieval Church10 Walsingham: Reformation and Reconstruction11 Writing the Reformation: Fiction and FactionNotesIndexPlates

Professor Eamon Duffy is Emeritus Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Magdalene College. He is the author of The Stripping of the Altars, Reformation Divided and Royal Books and Holy Bones and appears regularly on radio and television as an authority on religion and the Reformation in England.

Erudite, readable and acerbic ... [a] historian who, almost 40 years after publishing his first book, is still at the very top of his game.

• List of IllustrationsProloguePart One: Studies in Reformation1 Cathedral Pilgrimage: The Late Middle Ages2 The Dissolution of Ely Priory3 1569: A People's Tragedy4 Douai, Rheims and the Counter-Reformation5 The King James Bible6 Richard Baxter, ReminiscentPart Two: Writing the Reformation7 Luther Through Catholic Eyes8 James Anthony Froude and the Reign of Queen Mary9 A.G. Dickens and the Medieval Church10 Walsingham: Reformation and Reconstruction11 Writing the Reformation: Fiction and FactionNotesIndexPlates