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"A mighty and momentous book: a book to be read and re-read, pondered and revered a subtle, profound book written with passion and eloquence, and with masterly control."-J. "Sensitively written and beautifully produced, this book represents a major contribution to the Reformation debate."-Norman Tanner, The Times, London

A monumental and deeply felt work."-Gabriel Josipovici, Times Literary Supplement " at last gives the culture of the late Middle Ages in England its due, and helps us to see the period as it was and not as Protestant reformers and their intellectual descendants imagined it to be. "Deeply imaginative, movingly written, and splendidly illustrated."-Maurice Keen, New York Review of Books He suceeds triumphantly."-Susan Brigden, London Review of Books "Duffy wants to show the vitality and appeal of late medieval Catholicism and to prove that it exerted a diverse and vigorous hold over the imagination and loyalty of the people up to the very moment of Reformation. "A magnificent scholarly achievement, a compelling read, and not a page too long to defend a thesis which will provoke passionate debate."-Patricia Morison, Financial Times Oakes, Commonweal “A magnificent scholarly achievement, a compelling read, and not a page too long to defend a thesis which will provoke passionate debate.”-Patricia Morison, Financial Times “Deeply imaginative, movingly written, and splendidly illustrated.”-Maurice Keen, New York Review of Books Winner of the Longman- History Today Book of the Year Award

astonishing and magnificent piece of work.”-Edward T. Scarisbrick, The Tablet “Revisionist history at its most imaginative and exciting. “A mighty and momentous book: a book to be read and re-read, pondered and revered a subtle, profound book written with passion and eloquence, and with masterly control.”-J. For this edition, Duffy has written a new introduction reflecting on recent developments in our understanding of the period. This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion, showing that late-medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but a strong and vigorous tradition.