Research Catalog

Title

A people's tragedy : studies in reformation / Eamon Duffy.

Author

Duffy, Eamon

Publication

• London : Bloomsbury Continuum, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Description

264 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"As an authority on the religion of medieval and early modern England, Eamon Duffy is preeminent. In his revisionist masterpiece The Stripping of the Altars, Duffy opened up new areas of research and entirely fresh perspectives on the origin and progress of the English Reformation. Duffy's focus has always been on the practices and institutions through which ordinary people lived and experienced their religion, but which the Protestant reformers abolished as idolatry and superstition. The first part of A People's Tragedy examines the two most important of these institutions: the rise and fall of pilgrimage to the cathedral shrines of England, and the destruction of the monasteries under Henry VIII, as exemplified by the dissolution of the ancient Anglo-Saxon monastery of Ely. In the title essay of the volume, Duffy tells the harrowing story of the Elizabethan regime's savage suppression of the last Catholic rebellion against the Reformation, the Rising of the Northern Earls in 1569. In the second half of the book Duffy considers the changing ways in which the Reformation has been thought and written about: the evolution of Catholic portrayals of Martin Luther, from hostile caricature to partial approval; the role of historians of the Reformation in the emergence of English national identity; and the improbable story of the twentieth century revival of Anglican and Catholic pilgrimage to the medieval Marian shrine of Walsingham. Finally, he considers the changing ways in which attitudes to the Reformation have been reflected in fiction, culminating with Hilary Mantel's gripping trilogy on the rise and fall of Henry VIII's political and religious fixer, Thomas Cromwell, and her controversial portrayal of Cromwell's Catholic opponent and victim, Sir Thomas More." --

Subjects

• Church history
• England
• Reformation
• 1500-1599
• Church history > 16th century > Historiography
• Church history > Middle Ages, 600-1500 > Historiography
• England > Church history > 16th century
• England > Religious life and customs > 16th century
• Reformation > England > Historiography

Genre/Form

Church history.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I. Studies in Reformation. Cathedral pilgrimage : the late Middle Ages -- The dissolution of Ely Priory -- 1569 : a people's tragedy? -- Douai, Rheims and the Counter-Reformation -- The King James Bible -- Richard Baxter, reminiscent -- Part II. Writing the Reformation. Luther through Catholic eyes -- James Anthony Froude and the reign of Queen Mary -- A. G. Dickens and the medieval church -- Walsingham : Reformation and reconstruction -- Writing the Reformation : fiction and faction.

Call Number

JFE 21-462

ISBN

• 9781472983855
• 1472983858

OCLC

1197752353

Author

Duffy, Eamon, author.

Title

A people's tragedy : studies in reformation / Eamon Duffy.

Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Continuum, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1500-1599

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781472983862

Research Call Number

JFE 21-462