![]() ![]() Based on the evidence, Duffy firmly believes that the English Reformation was fundamentally a top-down affair, forced upon the people by the English Crown. The main thrust of Duffy’s argument is to debunk any idea that the Catholic Church of England on the eve of the reformation was a rotting stump ripe for a religious revolution and easy to kick over. However, since Eamon Duffy’s The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580, there has been a paradigm shift amongst scholars’ understanding of the English Reformation. ![]() ![]() ” If you are looking to remedy that hazy understanding, read on.Īcademic circles before the 1980s agreed that the English Reformation was a grassroots movement in response to an immoral clergy and an ineffective institutional Church. Many Catholics have at least heard of the English King Henry VIII and the Anglican Church, even if they don’t necessarily know the details of how the former established the latter: “ Something about a divorce. ![]() The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 by Eamon Duffy ![]()
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