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A new perspective on the Catholic and Protestant reformations from historian Professor Eamon Duffy.

About the Author

Professor Eamon Duffy is Emeritus Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Magdalene College. He is the author of The Stripping of the Altars, Reformation Divided and Royal Books and Holy Bones and appears regularly on radio and television as an authority on religion and the Reformation in England.

Reviews

The most readable of this year's crop of anniversary books ... Eamon Duffy [is] the doyen of Reformation historians
*Spectator Books of the Year, 2017*

Another blockbuster arrives from the professor (emeritus) of Christian history at Cambridge ... a galaxy of clever offerings ... This is a must read for any serious student of Reformation and post-Reformation England.
*Catholic Herald*

Energy, insight and sheer quality
*Spectator*

Characteristically stimulating and provocative ... Skilfully excavates the powerful passions unleashed by a cataclysmic movement that continues to shape how we live today
*Tablet*

The essays, superbly written, range across themes of Catholic eschatology and anti-Protestant devotional publications to appreciations of 17th-century Quakerism. Duffy, a Cambridge history professor, brilliantly recreates a world of heroism and holiness in 16th-century England.
*Observer*

Much of ... scholarship puts Protestantism on the right side of history, and sees the process and consequences of early modern religious contest from the perspective of those who might be considered to be its winners. This important new book turns these assumptions on their head ... an important rereading of the character and experience of reformation.
*Irish Times*

It is not often ... that the history of religion is such a pleasure to read as Eamon Duffy makes it.
*Daily Telegraph*

This won't be a conventional review of Duffy's exciting new collection of essays on the Reformation – or reformations, as he prefers. Not least because after having read a few chapters of this fabulous book, I was so buzzing with questions and ideas that I went up to Cambridge and took [the author] for lunch.
*Prospect*

Duffy’s contribution has been momentous ... The best of Duffy is on display in this volume ... With so many opportunistic blockbuster histories of the Reformation flooding from the presses this year, it’s nice to be reminded that a lifetime of specialised, painstaking scholarship often adds up to a bigger and far more rewarding picture.
*Herald (Glasgow)*

[Duffy's] observations cut against the critical grain, but are never less than thought-provoking, and make Reformation Divided essential reading as a defence of More’s writing and reputation.
*The Year's Work in English Studies*

The volume shows astonishing thematic and argumentative coherence.
*Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung (Bloomsbury Translation)*