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Royal Books and Holy Bones
- Essays in Medieval Christianity
- Narrated by: Eamon Duffy
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Bloomsbury presents Royal Books and Holy Bones written and read by Eamon Duffy.
In these vivid and approachable essays Eamon Duffy engages with some of the central aspects of Western religion in the thousand years between the decline of pagan Rome and the rise of the Protestant Reformation.
In the process he opens windows on the vibrant and multifaceted beliefs and practices by which medieval people made sense of their world: the fear of death and the impact of devastating pandemic, holy war against Islam and the invention of the blood libel against the Jews, provision for the afterlife and the continuing power of the dead over the living, the meaning of pilgrimage and the evolution of Christian music. Duffy unpicks the stories of the Golden Legend and Yale University’s mysterious Voynich manuscript, discusses the cult of ‘St’ Henry VI and explores childhood in the Middle Ages.
In this highly listenable collection Eamon Duffy once more challenges existing scholarly narratives and sheds new light on the religion of Britain and Europe before and during the Reformation.
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- Henry Tilney
- 22-08-2022
A delightful and scholarly review
There is so much to praise and value in the work of the scholar who works so confidently through a range of subjects but with so much charity and interest in everything he touches. Of particular interest is the way in which the author deals with the people involved in the drama rather than just with politics, ideas or objects. He brings great insight and compassion to what might otherwise be a dry and unedifying story.
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