Christianity in the West 1400-1700

A study not of the institution of the Church but of Christianity itself this book explores the Christian people their beliefs and their way of life providing a new understanding of Western Christianity at the time of the Reformation. Bossy begins with a systematic exposition of traditional or pre-Reformation Christianity exploring the forces that tended to undermine it the characteristics of the Protestant and Catholic regimes that superseded it and the fall-out that resulted from its disintegration.