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Unstripped altars again

Posted: 12 Oct 2012 @ 00:30

Nicholas Orme reads a new survey of the church scene before the Reformation

The Late Medieval English Church: Vitality and vulnerability before the break with Rome
G. W. Bernard
Yale University Press £25
(978-0-300-17997-2)
Church Times Bookshop £22.50 (Use code CT812 )

GREAT pillars of the Church in Tudor Eng­land collapsed like dominoes: papal power, monasteries, images, pilgrimages, and Latin services. Did that signify the Church's vul­nerability, or its vitality - the fact that it was at ...

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