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