The Stripping of the Altars cover art

The Stripping of the Altars

Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

The Stripping of the Altars

By: Eamon Duffy
Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £20.99

Buy Now for £20.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

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. For this edition, Duffy has written a new introduction reflecting on recent developments in our understanding of the period.

©1992 Eamon Duffy (P)2023 Tantor Christianity History

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The Dissolution of the Monasteries cover art
Royal Books and Holy Bones cover art
Orthodox Christianity cover art
Evangelical Is Not Enough cover art
The Burgundians cover art
Byzantium cover art
Homer Box Set: Iliad & Odyssey cover art
Christianity cover art
Devil-Land cover art
The Rise of Western Christendom (10th Anniversary Revised Edition) cover art
Faith of Our Fathers cover art
Jan Hus and Ulrich Zwingli cover art
The Thirty Years War cover art
The Unquenchable Flame cover art
The First Thousand Years cover art
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
Arguably one of the most important books about religious history written in the twentieth century, Duffy's Stripping of the Altars expertly counters the Reformation logic of most accounts of British Christianity. Far from abandoning Catholicism, late medieval and early modern people simply got on with their devotional Catholic lives despite the theological wrangles of royalty and government. The book is WONDERFULLY read. Nigel Patterson is a fantastic narrator of history books and he really captures the detail and pace of Duffy's book. Sadly, Duffy's other books are read by him on Audible, and they are almost unlistenable to - a fabulous historian, Duffy is a terrible narrator. A note to Audible authors - please let the professionals read your books!

Brilliantly read classic of religious history

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
So it turns out that Catholics were not so evil after all, despite all we were told.

A new and more balanced understanding of the Reformation.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.