As an authority on the religion of medieval and early modern England, Eamon Duffy is preeminent.
Duffy\'s focus has always been on the practices and institutions through which ordinary people lived and experienced their religion, but which the Protestant reformers abolished as idolatr.
In his revisionist masterpiece The Stripping of the Altars , Duffy opened up new areas of research and entirely fresh perspectives on the origin and progress of the English Reformation.
As an authority on the religion of medieval and early modern England, Eamon Duffy is preeminent