Books by Eamon Duffy
“The story, briefly, is that this is a small, rural parish on the edge of Exmoor in North Devon….Eamon Duffy’s book is a virtuoso exercise in how a historian with the right reserves of imagination can wring meaning from a source and make it sing.” Read more...
The best books on The Reformation
Peter Marshall, Historian
“This book is, in a phrase that he uses, a description of the funeral rites of Catholic England.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Eamon Duffy were recommended
The best books on English Church Music, recommended by Andrew Gant
Think you’re not interested in church music? Think again. Read this interview and you’ll soon find yourself ordering some books about it too. And a Happy Christmas from your editors at Five Books.
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Christianity In The West 1400-1700
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Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe
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Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
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The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village
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For The Sake Of Simple Folk: Popular Propaganda for the German Reformation
by R W Scribner
The best books on The Reformation, recommended by Peter Marshall
The best books on The Reformation, recommended by Peter Marshall
On October 31st 1517, Martin Luther, an unknown friar in an obscure town in eastern Germany may or may not have posted a list of complaints to the door of his local church. His actions would lead to what was later called ‘the Reformation’ — a grisly period in European history that nonetheless paved the way for a more tolerant and pluralistic society. Peter Marshall, one of the period’s leading scholars, talks us through the best books on the Reformation.
