There have, of course, been studies of aspects of English religion which have covered much the same period, notably Keith Thomas s Religion and the Decline of Magic, and many of those who have written about one or other of my two periods have reached out before or after to establish context or to suggest connections: Cohn Richmond s sensitive explorations of the religion of the gentry in late medieval Norfolk and Suffolk, Clive Burgess s pioneering work on the parishioners of late medieval Bristol, or Robert Whiting s study of the Reformation in South-west England, provide cases in point. In the second part I have tried to tell the story of the dismantling and destruction of that symbolic world, from Henry VIII s break with the Papacy in the early 1530s to the Elizabethan "Settlement" of religion, which I take to have been more or less secure, or at least in the ascendant, by about 1580. In the first part I have sought to explore the character and range of late medieval English Catholicism, indicating something of the richness and complexity of the religious system by which men and women structured their experience of the world, and their hopes and aspirations within and beyond it. This book attempts two tasks usually carried out separately, and by at least two different sets of practitioners. Leicht berieben, insgesamt sehr gut und sauber. Slightly rubbed, allover very good and clean.
Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT).
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