Harline, Craig : Brigham Young University

Craig Harline is professor of history at Brigham Young University. Eddy Put is senior assistant at the Belgian National Archives and lecturer at the Catholic University of Louvain.

�An elegantly written and absorbing microhistory. . . . It brings to mind The Return of Martin Guerre and The Cheese and the Worms.�

--Carlos M. N. Eire

�This is a microhistory that ranks with the best of them: Carlo Ginzburg�s Cheese and the Worms and Natalie Davis� The Return of Martin Guerre.�

--Carlos M. N. Eire

�Truly remarkable. . . . A daring attempt to bring history alive. . . . [E]legantly written and absorbing. . . . [R]eads very much like a good novel.�

--Carlos M. N. Eire

�The most amazing book since Johan Huizinga�s Waning of the Middle Ages.�

--Heiko Oberman

�The history book of the year--and perhaps simply the book of the year.�

--Russell Hittinger, Weekly Standard

�[The] stories entertain as they educate, offering a close-up of day-to-day Catholicism, village life, and the bawdy humor generated by human frailty and feistiness. A Bishop�s Tale is an historical feast.�

--Debra Bendis, Christian Century

�Practically every page is as encrusted with detail as a jeweled medieval reliquary.�

--Michael Joseph Gross, Boston Globe


�An extraordinary work of historical biography.�

--Amazon.com (2000 Editor�s Choice)

�[The] most amazing book since Johan Huizinga�s Waning of the Middle Ages.�]

--Heiko Oberman

�Riviting . . . on the level of Natalie Davis, Steven Ozment, and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie.�

--Choice

Yale University Press Web Site, April, 2002

This delightful book recreates the busy, colorful world of a Catholic bishop and his flock from 1590�1620. Based upon the recently discovered daybook of Mathias Hovius, the book focuses not only on his life but also on key events and characters of the period--experiences of monks, nuns, pilgrims, peasants, saints, and others.