I have found the book "The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in
England 1400-1580" by Eamon Duffy (Yale UP) to be a marvelous text. It may
stray out of your area historically, but it does put many ideas about what
is old, what is new, what is "reformed" and/or "retained" in the English
church into a broader historical, anthropological and theological context.
Maybe not a textbook, but worthy of a place on a suggested reading list.
Besides, Duffy is just a marvelous, witty writer. Also the work of Piero
Camporesi - while controversial - is very interesting for his take on the
change in mindset from the middle ages into the counter-reformation (e.g.
his "Incorruptible Flesh" about saints lives, etc.) I know that Lindberg's
"European Reformation" (Blackwell) has been widely used as a more general
text. Regards, Terry
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