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Article: Lest We Be Damned: Practical Innovation and Lived Experience among Catholics in Protestant England, 1559-1642.(Book review)
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- December 1, 2006
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Lest We Be Damned: Practical Innovation and Lived Experience among Catholics in Protestant England, 1559-1642. By Lisa McClain. Religion in History, Society, and Culture 6. New York: Routledge, 2004. xvi + 395 pp. $100.00 cloth.
During the past two decades, scholars have produced a remarkable body of work that effectively rewrites the history of English Catholicism in the early modern period. Eamon Duffy, Christopher Haigh, and Alexandra Walsham have demonstrated that traditional religion exerted vigorous influence on the imagination and loyalty of the English people well into the English Reformation and displayed remarkable flexibility and resilience thereafter. ...