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The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village is a 2001 non-fiction history book by Eamon Duffy and published by Yale University Press about Morebath, England, during the English Reformation and Tudor period of the 16th century. Using the detailed parish accounts maintained by Sir Christopher Trychay, the vicar of Morebath's parish, Duffy recounts the religious and social implications of the Reformation in a small conservative Catholic community through the reign of Henry VIII, the 1549 Prayer Book Rebellion, to the Elizabethan era. Trychay's accounts–first reprinted in 1904–had been used in other scholarly works and was first encountered during Duffy's research for his 1992 The Stripping of the Altars on pre-Reformation English traditional religion. The Voices of Morebath depicts both Morebath and Trychay through their strong early resistance to the Reformation to their eventual adoption of new religious norms under the Protestant Elizabethan Religious Settlement.

The Voices of Morebath was praised for its coverage of parochial and local matters, particularly its personal treatment of Trychay. It drew critiques for instances where Duffy uses examples from Morebath to engage in broader discussions, with other reviewers noting that Duffy conceded these limitations. The book was generally appraised as overly complex for the broad audience it had been written and marketed towards. Lucy Wooding, a historian of the Tudor period, called the work "invaluable" as "a contribution to debate on the English Reformation" and suggested that Duffy's own views had developed during his time writing the book. Robert M. Kingdon, a historian of the Reformation, acknowledged that the number of wider conclusions that could be drawn from the book was limited but lauded Duffy's "remarkable empathy and impressive technical research skills". In 2002, The Voices of Morebath won the Hawthornden Prize and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize.

Background
In the 16th century, Morebath was a Devon village of sheepherders with a "remote and poor" parish that served roughly 33 families of 150 people. Sir Christopher Trychay was Morebath's vicar for 54 years, a period during which England had four monarchs and Morebath transitioned from a conservative Catholic community rebelling against the government-imposed English Reformation into a village conforming to the Protestant Elizabethan Religious Settlement. Religion played a significant role in the daily lives of Morebath's residents, though they conformed their practices to the oscillating theologies imposed under the monarchies of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth. However, the strain of the Edwardian government's religious and financial demands proved the most trying: Devon and Cornwall revolted with the implementation of 1549 Book of Common Prayer, and the Morebath parish sponsored five of its men to join the doomed Prayer Book Rebellion at Exeter.

Trychay maintained meticulous parish accounts during his vicarage at Morebath. These records have been utilized by scholars researching 16th-century England since a version of them was first published in J. Erskine Binney's 1904 The Accounts of the Wardens of the Parish of Morebath, Devon, 1520–1573. Binney was an antiquarian who, like Sir Christopher Trychay, had been vicar of St George's Church in Morebath. The 1904 edition was edited on behalf of a local record society. Trychay's accounts are among the few surviving 16th-century accounts of Morebath's parish, as many of its records were destroyed in bombing raids on Exeter during the Second World War. While Binney had sorted the original manuscript records, they were later dropped and then randomly rebound at Exeter Library. Eamon Duffy utilized Binney's edition and the original manuscript in compiling The Voices of Morebath.

Scholarship published before The Voices of Morebath had been split on the popularity of the Reformation among the Tudor English population. Historian A. G. Dickens argued that Protestantism was quickly and voluntarily accepted across England in his 1964 The English Reformation. Initially well-received by reviewers, Dickens's thesis saw revisionist challenges by other scholars. Catholic historian Jack Scarisbrick, in his 1984 The Reformation and the English People, held that the 16th-century English were generally unwilling to surrender their Catholicism. Using Dickens's approach of examining local records, Margaret Bowker's 1981 The Henrician Reformation and Susan Brigden's 1989 London and the Reformation contradicted Dickens and held that Protestantism made inroads slowly among the English.

Duffy, an Irish Catholic historian of British religion, published The Stripping of the Altars in 1992. Called "magisterial" by Tudor period historians Robert M. Kingdon and Robert Tittler, this work described the traditional religious practices that permeated all elements of pre-Reformation English society. Duffy's scholarship contended that the Reformation was "a violent disruption, not the natural fulfilment, of most of what was vigorous in late medieval piety and religious practice". The Stripping of the Altars and its conclusions proved popular, despite criticisms that Duffy has neglected addressing negative cultural components of the medieval church and that Duffy's explanation that Catholic England had been killed by a "royal deus ex machina" was unconvincing. Duffy would describe the book as "a runaway success".

Contents
The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village, written by Duffy and published by Yale University Press in 2001, features 16 pages of front matter and 232 pages of body matter. It was released in both a cloth hardcover edition and a paperback edition. Duffy intended The Voices of Morebath to serve as a "pendant" for The Stripping of the Altars; Duffy had first encountered Trychay's records while performing research for the 1992 book.

Legacy
Engagement with The Voices of Morebath has spanned a variety of groups. Following the book's publication, an English Heritage sign has been installed in Morebath and the church reported that hundreds of people have come to visit after reading about it in Duffy's work. Morebath has also been featured on historical television programming regarding the English Reformation: Ann Widdecombe's 2009 series Christianity: A History included an interview with Duffy and utilized Morebath to describe the Reformation's impact on the English rural class, while the Reformation episode of BBC Two's 2012 The Great British Story: A People's History also focussed on Morebath.