American historian at Brigham Young University who specializes in early modern European religious culture — and whose World Gone by: A Family History focuses on Catholic religious life in 17th century Flanders — bringing popular religious culture to life with scholarly rigor.
Recovers the texture of ordinary religious life in early modern Catholic Europe — how people actually experienced religion, prayer, miracles, and the saints in daily life — making the gap between official theology and popular practice visible.
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