THE MASS BELLS OF MAREMMA

The waning of European Christianity

November 2, 2004

Published in the 2004-11-05 issue:

Eamon Duffy is Reader in Church History in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Magdalene College. He is the author of The Stripping of the Altars and Saints and Sinners, a history of the popes, both published by Yale University Press.

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