|
|
Article: The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- Church History
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2003 American Society of Church History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village. By Eamon Duffy. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001. xvi + 232 pp. $22.50 cloth.
While working on his magnum opus, The Stripping of the Altars (Yale, 1992), Eamon Duffy encountered the parish records of Morebath, a remote and poor parish in Devon, and Christopher Trychay. This book is the story of Morebath during Trychay's fifty-four years as vicar--a period spanning the reigns of four monarchs during which Morebath went from a conventionally Catholic village to one that conformed to the Elizabethan religious settlement. It is more than a lengthy and well-illustrated footnote to ...