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By Norman Tanner

Christianity within the later heart a while was once flourishing, renowned and colourful and the institutional church was once mostly well known - in stark distinction to the image of corruption and decline painted via the later Reformers which persists even this day.

Norman Tanner, the pre-eminent historian of the later medieval church, presents a wealthy and authoritative historical past of faith during this pivotal interval. regardless of indicators of turbulence and calls for for reform, he demonstrates that the church remained robust, self-confident and deeply rooted. Weaving jointly key topics of non secular historical past - the Christian roots of Europe; the crusades; the troublesome query of the Inquisition; the connection among the church and secular nation; the vital function of monasticism; and the independence of the English church - The a while of religion is a magnificent tribute to a lifetime’s examine into this topic. yet to many readers the valuable fascination of The a long time of religion could be its perceptive insights into well known and person religious adventure: sin, piety, penance, heresy, the function of the mystics or even ‘making merry’.

The a long time of religion is an incredible contribution to the Reformation debate and provides a revealing imaginative and prescient of person and renowned faith in an enormous interval see you later obscured by way of the drama of the Reformation.

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