The Voices of Morebath is really just one voice, that of the parish priest, Sir Christopher Trychay. Author Eamon Duffy retells the trials and tribulations of a small West County English village during the tumultuous times of the Reformation, as written down by Sir Trychay in his parish account books. 

Review: The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village

I'm torn on how to rate this because on one hand, this is not a book that an amateur history reader will want to pick up. In fact, I can't see anyone outside the field of historical scholarship ... Read full review

Review: The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village

A window into the lives of the people of a single parish during the English reformation. Fresh insights into the Christianity of the early modern period. Read full review

Review: The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village

Loved it. Have read it twice. Read full review

Review: The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village

The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village by Eamon Duffy recounts a town in western England between the years of 1520 and 1574. Built around the church records of ... Read full review

Review: The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village

Synopsis taken from the inside-front jacket: In the fifty years between 1530 and 1580, England moved from being one of the most lavishly Catholic countries in Europe to being a Protestant nation, a ... Read full review

Review: The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village

Despite how incredibly dense (and let's face it...boring) this book is, it is rather short in length and really an incredible way of developing a picture of a Tudor village through the use of quantitative data. Read full review

Review: The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village

If Haruki Murakami were allowed to expand his occasional—albeit fictional—digressions into the histories of obscure Japanese villages into a book, I think it would have a flavor very similar to the ... Read full review

Review: The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village

Eamon Duffy's The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village is a micro history of the minutest degree. The book uses as its primary source a series of records kept over a ... Read full review

Review: The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village

An extraordinary look at a single Devonshire parish through all the religious changes of the mid- and late-16th century, all through the eyes of its parish priest, who survived it all. Based on parish ... Read full review