Eamon Duffy Reihenfolge der Bücher

"In the fifty years between 1530 and 1580, England moved from being one of the most lavishly Catholic countries in Europe to being a Protestant nation, a land of whitewashed churches and anti-papal preaching. What was the impact of this religious change in the countryside? And how did country people feel about the revolutionary upheavals that transformed their mental and material worlds under Henry VIII and his three children?". "In this book a reformation historian takes us inside the mind and heart of Morebath, a remote and tiny sheep farming village where thirty-three families worked the difficult land on the southern edge of Exmoor. The bulk of Morebath's conventional archives have long since vanished. But from 1520 to 1574, through nearly all the drama of the English Reformation, Morebath's only priest, Sir Christopher Trychay, kept the parish accounts on behalf of the churchwardens. Opinionated, eccentric, and talkative, Sir Christopher filled these vivid scripts for parish meetings with the names and doings of his parishioners. Through his eyes we catch a rare glimpse of the life and pre-reformation piety of a sixteenth-century English village."--BOOK JACKET.

Dit boek beslaat de opmerkelijke geschiedenis van het pausdom, vanaf het begin daarvan, ongeveer tweeduizend jaar geleden, tot het pontificaat van paus Johannes Paulus II. Het is een rijk geïllustreerd boek dat niet alleen iedereen zal boeien die de geschiedenis van de katholieke kerk wil begrijpen, maar ook iedereen met interesse in de ideologische, politieke en culturele krachten die de moderne wereld hebben gevormd. Eamon Duffy gaat het merkwaardige proces na waardoor Petrus, de nederige visser uit Galilea, het boegbeeld en de basis werd van een instituut dat niet alleen het Romeinse en Byzantijnse Rijk overleefde, maar ook dat van het Karolingische Gallië, het middeleeuwse Duitsland, Spanje en Groot-Brittannië, het Derde Rijk van Hitler en meest recentelijk dat van de Sovjet-Unie. Vandaag de dag richten bijna een miljard mensen zich op de paus voor geestelijk leiderschap, en is het pausdom het oudste en misschien wel de meest invloedrijke van alle menselijke instituten geworden.

Chronicles the history of the papacy from its beginnings to the reign of John Paul II.

"The first part of the book reviews the main features of religious belief and practice up to 1536. Duffy examines the factors that contributed to the close lay engagement with the structures of late medieval Catholicism: the liturgy that was widely understood even though it was in Latin; the impact of literacy and printing on lay religious knowledge; the conventions and contents of lay prayer; the relation of orthodox religious practice and magic; the Mass and the cult of the saints; and lay belief about death and the afterlife. In the second part of the book Duffy explores the impact of Protestant reforms on this traditional religion, providing new evidence of popular discontent from medieval wills and parish records. He documents the widespread opposition to Protestantism during the reigns of Henry and Edward, discusses Mary's success in reestablishing Catholicism, and describes the public resistance to Elizabeth's dismantling of parochial Catholicism that did not wane until the late 1570s. A major revision to accepted thinking about the spread of the Reformation, this book will be essential reading for students of British history and religion."--BOOK JACKET.