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  • British and Irish Religious Orders in Europe, 15601800

    Conventuals, Mendicants and Monastics in Motion

    by Cormac Begadon, Dr Jessica McCandless, Geoffrey Scott, Dr Liam Chambers, Dr Thomas McInally, Dr Shaun Blanchard, James E Kelly, Laurence Lux-Sterritt, Professor Tadhg O Hannrachain0, Professor John McCafferty1, Caroline Bowden2, Dr Jaime Goodrich3 ...
    This collection aims to explore new perspectives on the British and Irish conventual, mendicant and monastic movements in mainland Europe and rediscover their roles and wider impact within early modern European Catholicism. Building on recent scholarship, the book addresses a historiographical imbalance, which has led to an over-emphasis being placed on the role of the Society of Jesus in the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Catholic England under Mary Tudor

    by Eamon Duffy ...
    The reign of Mary Tudor has been remembered as an era of sterile repression, when a reactionary monarch launched a doomed attempt to reimpose Catholicism on an unwilling nation. Above all, the burning alive of more than 280 men and women for their religious beliefs seared the rule of “Bloody Mary” into the protestant imagination as an alien aberration in the onward and upward march of the English ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Murder of William of Norwich

    The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe

    by E.M. Rose ...
    In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found abandoned outside the city's walls. The boy bore disturbing signs of torture, and a story spread that it was a ritual murder, performed by Jews in imitation of the Crucifixion as a mockery of Christianity. The outline of William's tale eventually gained currency far beyond Norwich, and the idea that Jews ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Women in Medieval Europe 1200-1500

    by Jennifer Ward ...
    Women in Medieval Europe explores the key areas of female experience in the later medieval period, from peasant women to Queens. It considers the women of the later Middle Ages in the context of their social relationships during a time of changing opportunities and activities, so that by 1500 the world of work was becoming increasingly restricted to women. The chapters are arranged thematically to ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Benedictines in the Middle Ages

    by James G. Clark ...
    The men and women that followed the sixth-century customs of Benedict of Nursia (c.480-c.547) formed the most enduring, influential, numerous and widespread religious order of the Latin middle ages. Their liturgical practice, andtheir acquired taste for learning, served as a model for the medieval church as a whole: while new orders arose, they took some of their customs, and their observant and ... Read more

    $17.99 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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  • King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom

    by W. B. Patterson ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
    This book shows King James VI and I, king of Scotland and England, in an unaccustomed light. Long regarded as inept, pedantic, and whimsical, James is shown here as an astute and far-sighted statesman whose reign was focused on achieving a permanent union between his two kingdoms and a peaceful and stable community of nations throughout Europe. ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Henry V

    The Conscience of a King

    by Malcolm Vale ...
    More than just a single-minded warrior-king, Henry V comes to life in this fresh account as a gifted ruler acutely conscious of spiritual matters and his subjects’ welfareShakespeare’s centuries-old portrayal of Henry V established the king’s reputation as a warmongering monarch, a perception that has persisted ever since. But in this exciting, thoroughly researched volume a different view of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Fourth Estate

    A History of Women in the Middle Ages

    by Shulamith Shahar ...
    Did women really constitute a `fourth estate' in medieval society and, if so, in what sense? In this wide-ranging study Shulamith Shahar considers this and the whole question of the varying attitudes to women and their status in western Europe between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Growing Old in the Middle Ages

    'Winter Clothes Us in Shadow and Pain'

    by Shulamith Shahar ...
    The social realities of old age have undergone profound changes since the middle ages. This study shows, however, that the images, attitudes and expectations of old people have changed for less.Shulamith Shahar shows how the status and social participation of the elderly varied according to gender, social stratum, economic resources, position, level of functioning, and personality, as well as ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Debate on the English Reformation

    Second edition

    by Rosemary O’Day ...
    Series series Issues in Historiography
    Extensively revised and updated, this new edition of The debate on the English Reformation combines a discussion of successive historical approaches to the English Reformation with a critical review of recent debates in the area, offering a major contribution to modern historiography as well as to Reformation studies. It explores the way in which successive generations have found the Reformation ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Cistercians in the Middle Ages

    by Janet Burton, Julie Kerr ...
    The Cistercians (White Monks) were the most successful monastic experiment to emerge from the tumultuous intellectual and religious fervour of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. By around 1150 they had established houses the length and breadth of Western Christendom and were internationally renowned. They sought to return to a simple form of monastic life, as set down in the Rule of St Benedict, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD