{"product_id":"the-voices-of-morebath-9780300098259","title":"The Voices of Morebath","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the 50 years between 1530 and 1580, England moved from being a lavishly Catholic country to a Protestant nation. Exploring Morebath, a remote and tiny sheep-farming village on the edge of Exmoor, this work offers a window into a rural world in crisis as the Reformation progressed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stories like the one Duffy skillfully tells here, for historian and general reader alike . . . bear remembering.\"—Paul Lewis, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stories like the one Duffy skillfully tells here, for historian and general reader alike . . . bear remembering. And it is a story that can still be seen. . . . Duffy’s map of the parish in Tudor times remains accurate today.\"—Paul Lewis, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Social history at its most compelling.\"—\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an absorbing portrait of one small Devon village in the sixteenth century as it faced up to daily life and the upheavals of the English Reformation. . . . A series of vivid snapshots of ordinary life during a time of extraordinary change.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times (\u003c\/i\u003eLondon)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Duffy’s scholarship is meticulous and exact. . . . This is a book to be read by enthusiasts and general readers alike. . . . It is vital to understand, for example, that the piety of the people clustered around the saints of the region as if they were an emanation of the soil itself. As more historians begin to discover this territorial imperative, then new forms of history will be written. \u003ci\u003eThe Voices of Morebath is \u003c\/i\u003ea significant and striking example.\"—Peter Ackroyd, \u003ci\u003eThe Times (\u003c\/i\u003eLondon)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dr. Duffy’s presentation of the journals is quite brilliant. . . . The book is never dull: on the contrary, it reads like a very good novel. . . . This book should be assured of a place in the library of every Catholic school, primary as well as secondary. . . . Not to have read it will reduce one’s claim to be a well-informed English Catholic.\"—\u003ci\u003eMentor Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gripping. . . . We catch a rare glimpse of the life and pre-Reformation piety of a sixteenth century English village.\"—\u003ci\u003eCatholic Life (\u003c\/i\u003eUK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Duffy’s meticulous research enables us to catch a rare glimpse of 16th-century religious life as experienced by the poorest of the poor, whose distress at the constant and inexplicable changes wrought by the Reformation comes through clearly in this remarkable and highly praised account.\"—\u003ci\u003eGood Book Guide (\u003c\/i\u003eUK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] vivid piece of microhistory. . . . Through a sensitive and sympathetic reading of this text written to be read out loud to Trychay’s parishioners, Duffy provides us with a rich and often witty portrait.\"—Alexandra Walsham, \u003ci\u003eHistory (\u003c\/i\u003eUK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A vivid study. . . . What Duffy gives us is an utterly convincing and compelling work of reconstruction. Other historians have known and used the Morebath accounts, but we have not had this mixture of critical engagement and sheer enthusiasm before. . . . His book is alive with detail and Morebath comes to life in the process. . . . Christopher Trychay and the voices of Morebath are fortunate indeed to have found such a wise and compassionate judge as Eamon Duffy.\"—David Hoyle, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Theological Studies (\u003c\/i\u003eUK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a gem: small, colourful, many-faceted.\"—Lucy Wooding, \u003ci\u003eReviews in History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShort-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong-listed for the British Academy Book award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Hawthornden Prize for Literature for the best work of imaginative literature \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401498763607,"sku":"9780300098259","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300098259.jpg?v=1730477628","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-voices-of-morebath-9780300098259","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}