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  • Incombustible Lutheran Books in Early Modern Germany

    by Avner Shamir ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
    This book discusses the early modern engagement with books that survived intentional or accidental fire in Lutheran Germany. From the 1620s until the middle of the eighteenth century, unburnt books became an attraction for princes, publishers, clergymen, and some laymen. To cope with an event that seemed counter-intuitive and possibly supernatural, contemporaries preserved these books, narrated ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • English Bibles on Trial

    Bible burning and the desecration of Bibles, 1640–1800

    by Avner Shamir ...
    The aim of this book is to explore antagonism towards, and acts of violence against, English Bibles in England and Scotland (and, to a lesser degree, Ireland) from the English Civil War to the end of the eighteenth century. In this period, English Bibles were burnt, torn apart, thrown away and desecrated in theatrical and highly offensive ways. Soldiers and rebels, clergymen and laymen, believers ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • God's Secretaries

    The Making of the King James Bible

    by Adam Nicolson ...
    A study of the committee behind the creation of the 1611 English Bible—"an engaging work of literary, cultural, and religious history" ( Kirkus Reviews ).NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK"This scrupulously elegant account of the creation of what four centuries of history has confirmed is the finest English-langu... ... Read more

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  • Heretics and Believers

    A History of the English Reformation

    by Peter Marshall ...
    A sumptuously written people’s history and a major retelling and reinterpretation of the story of the English ReformationCenturies on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall’s sweeping new history—the first major overview for general readers in a generation—argues that sixteenth-century England was a society neither desperate for nor allergic to ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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  • The King James Bible

    A Short History from Tyndale to Today

    by David Norton ...
    The King James Bible was the result of an extraordinary effort over nearly a century to make many good English translations and turn them into what the translators called 'one principal good one, not justly to be excepted against'. David Norton traces the work of Tyndale and his successors, analysing the translation and revisions of two representative passages. His fascinating new account follows ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • The Devil in Tudor and Stuart England

    In Tudor and Stuart England

    by Darren Oldridge ...
    The Devil was a commanding figure in Tudor and Stuart England. He played a leading role in the religious and political conflicts of the age, and inspired great works of poetry and drama. During the turmoil of the English Civil War, fears of a secret conspiracy of Devil-worshippers fuelled a witch-hunt that claimed at least a hundred lives. This book traces the idea of the Devel from the English ... Read more

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  • Wide As the Waters

    The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution

    by Benson Bobrick ...
    This gripping and accessible work of history, religion, and literary criticism chronicles the first English translation of the King James version of the bible—through the tumultuous reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary Tudor, and Elizabeth I, a time of fierce contest between Catholics and Protestants in England—which took centuries to complete.Next to the Bible itself, the English Bible was -- ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • A People’s Tragedy

    Studies in Reformation

    by Professor Eamon Duffy ...
    As an authority on the religion of medieval and early modern England, Professor Eamon Duffy is preeminent.In his revisionist masterpiece The Stripping of the Altars, Duffy opened up new areas of research and entirely fresh perspectives on the origin and progress of the English Reformation. Duffy's focus has always been on the practices and institutions through which ordinary people lived and ... Read more

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  • The Burning Time

    Henry VIII, Bloody Mary and the Protestant Martyrs of London

    by Virginia Rounding ...
    "This gruesomely entertaining book examines the Tudor zeal for burning people in the name of religion . . . it both 'purifies' and leaves little or no trace." — The Times of London, "Book of the Week"Smithfield, settled on the fringes of Roman London, was once a place of revelry. Jesters and crowds flocked for the medieval St. Bartholomew's Day celebrations, tournaments were plentiful and it ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • William Tyndale

    A Very Brief History

    by Melvyn Bragg ...
    Series series Very Brief Histories
    'An enjoyably pacey read.' Times Literary Supplement'Eloquent... brilliant and very moving.' Paul Cartledge, Emeritus Professor of Greek culture, University of Cambridge'On the morning of 6 October 1536, a frail scholar was taken from a dungeon in the castle at Vilvoorde, just north of Brussels. Armed guards kept the crowds at bay as he was led through the streets of the small town. He was to be ... Read more

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  • Foxe's Christian Martyrs

    The Powerful Classic, Abridged and Updated

    by John Foxe ...
    Series series Inspirational Book Bargains
    You’ll be inspired by the ultimate sacrifice of dozens of early followers of Jesus as recorded in the classic history Foxe’s Christian Martyrs. This sixteenth-century book, presented here in an abridged and updated edition, describes the faithful lives and untimely deaths of Christians from the early church era through the reign of Queen Elizabeth in England. Though man’s evil toward man is ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion

    Edited by Andrew Hiscock, Helen Wilcox ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the most turbulent times in the history of the British church and, perhaps as a result, produced some of the greatest devotional poetry, sermons, polemics, and epics of literature in English. The ... Read more

    $42.29 USD