Royal Books and Holy Bones: Essays in Medieval Christianity

by Eamon Duffy

In 1992, Eamon Duffy created a sensation in Reformation studies by publishing his groundbreaking book The Stripping of the Altars. In it he demonstrated the health of late medieval religion in England and that the thesis hitherto accepted that the Reformation came to wipe away a corrupt and rotten Church was essentially false.

In this book follow-up to The Stripping of the Altars, Duffy makes further soundings in late medieval...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472953231
• ISBN13: 9781472953230
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.4"