{"product_id":"9780857738998","title":"Ages of Faith: Popular Religion in Late Medieval England and Western Europe","description":"Christianity in the later Middle Ages was flourishing, popular and vibrant and the institutional church was generally popular - in stark contrast to the picture of corruption and decline painted by the later Reformers which persists even today.   Norman Tanner, the pre-eminent historian of the later medieval church, provides a rich and authoritative history of religion in this pivotal period.  Despite signs of turbulence and demands for reform, he demonstrates that the church remained powerful, self-confident and deeply rooted.  Weaving together key themes of religious history - the Christian roots of Europe; the crusades; the problematic question of the Inquisition; the relationship between the church and secular state; the central role of monasticism; and the independence of the English church - The Ages of Faith is an impressive tribute to a lifetime’s research into this subject.  But to many readers the central fascination of The Ages of Faith will be its perceptive insights into popular and individual spiritual experience: sin, piety, penance, heresy, the role of the mystics and even ‘making merry’.   The Ages of Faith is a major contribution to the Reformation debate and offers a revealing vision of individual and popular religion in an important period so long obscured by the drama of the Reformation.","brand":"I.B.Tauris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131845099760,"sku":"9780857738998","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780857738998_p0.jpg?v=1763831370","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780857738998","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}