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THE VOICES OF MOREBATH: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village
Eamon Duffy, Yale University

Eamon Duffy uses the written accounts of a sixteenth-century country priest - Sir Christopher Trychay - to reveal Morebath’s complex social life, its strains, tensions and conflicting personalities, and its busy pre-Reformation piety. They also offer us a unique window into a rural world in crisis as the reformation progressed. Through Sir Christopher’s eyes, or rather, through his voice – for he wrote these accounts to be read aloud to his parishioners - we catch a rare glimpse of life and death in an English village. 

About the Author

Eamon Duffy is Reader in Church History at the University of Cambridge, and President of Magdalene College.



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