Dr. Eamon Duffy. This truly revolutionary book explodes all the myths about the English Reformation. Its painstaking and well researched narrative shows, on the basis of the surviving records and church furnishings, that, contrary to "standard" historians, the late Medieval English layman knew his Catholic Faith very well, and was very devoted to it. We are shown further how every degree in society had its own proper way of following the Faith---and gives the lie to the charge that most of the pre-Reformation clergy were ignorant or corrupt. Proves that the Reformation was a "revolution from the top" forced upon an unwilling---and in some cases, violently resisting---population. The parallels with events in today's Church are chilling. Perfect reading for any who wish to prove through deep scholarship and historical proof not merely the folly of both the "Reformers" and current liturgical revolutionaries, but anyone who claims that traditional Catholicism cannot meet the needs of modern man. Does for Church history what Klaus Gamber's book did for the Traditional Mass. Powerful! 654pp. PB. ITEM #10791 $22.95