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• W2510080286 abstract "Tigers of Wrath are wiser than Horses of Instruction. Not many writers could get away with invoking these words of visionary poet William Blake to preface book. However, historian John Bossy, who died aged eightytwo on October 23, 2015, in York, was no ordinary writer. Moreover, book in question-Christianity in West, 1400-1700 (New York, 1985), his masterpiece-was no ordinary book, for it was nothing less than visionary reimagining of religious we have lost, whose consequences still shape mental and emotional landscape of twenty-first century.In series of articles-as brief as they were brilliant-that culminated in Christianity in West, Bossy showed how Christianity ceased to be a of and became merely a of beliefs. He developed idea, which had also been sketched by his doctoral supervisor, H. Outram Evennett (in latter's posthumously published Spirit of Counter-Reformation [Cambridge, UK, 1968], with postscript by Bossy), that Protestantism and Catholicism shared similar agenda in way that, characteristically, invited debate rather than assent. For Bossy, instrument of catechism reduced Christianity to what could be taught and learned, whereas introduction of that new item of church furniture, confession box, made secret sacrament-of penance-that had been previously semi-public and thus subjected the average soul-one of Bossy's many memorable phrases-to regime of moral surveillance unprecedented in degree. Such insights continue to offer an important corrective to still widely held popular assumption that Reformation witnessed supersession of bad religion by good.Bossy's concern with understanding how actual social behavior was affected by these changes had been leitmotif of his first book, The English Catholic Community, 1570-1850 (London, 1975), in which, drawing creatively on insights and methods of social anthropology and particularly French religious sociology, he showed how community in question constituted body of people . . . with its own internal structure and way of life (p. 296). This wholly original book, which after forty years still bears reading, also broke significantly with existing approach that had cast story of English Recusant Catholicism essentially in terms of isolated, embattled victimhood.The third of Bossy's books that still has strong claim on attention of reader is double prize-winning Giordano Bruno and Embassy Affair (New Haven, 1991). The fact that awards in question were Wolfson History Prize and British Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for nonfiction (in same year that Ruth Rendell won equivalent award for fiction) indicates that Bossy had achieved remarkable hat trick-in having written three succes- sive books of such remarkable originality and distinction, with each one utterly different in style and method from last. In this historical whodunit Bossy turned his considerable skills as writer to examine specific challenges posed by historical narrative. Although he later had to retract his claim that Italian philosopher Bruno was linked to mole codenamed Henry Fagot inside household of French ambassador to court of Elizabeth during 1580s, this does not detract from bravura and skill of its author's evocation of cloak-and-dagger world of Elizabethan London. He mined same rich seam of extreme international uncertainty with his last book, Under Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story (New Haven, 2001). …" @default.
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