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  • Oaths and the English Reformation

    by Jonathan Michael Gray ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
    The practice of swearing oaths was at the centre of the English Reformation. On the one hand, oaths were the medium through which the Henrician regime implemented its ideology and secured loyalty among the people. On the other, they were the tool by which the English people embraced, resisted and manipulated royal policy. Jonathan Michael Gray argues that since the Reformation was negotiated ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • God's Jury

    The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World

    by Cullen Murphy ...
    "From Torquemada to Guantánamo and beyond, Cullen Murphy finds the 'inquisitorial impulse' alive, and only too well, in our world" (Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money).Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with the persecution of heretics and Jews—and with burning at the stake—its targets were ... Read more

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  • The Reformation

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Marshall ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Reformation transformed Europe and left an indelible mark on the modern world. But what actually was the Reformation and how should it be defined? Historians have long wrangled over whether it represented a force leading to progress, liberty, and modernity, or to conflict, division, and repression. What is certain is that the relationships ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • A Nearly Infallible History of the Reformation

    Commemorating 500 years of Popes, Protestants, Reformers, Radicals and Other Assorted Irritants

    by Nick Page ...
    500 years ago, Martin Luther nailed his ideas to a church door - and the Reformation began. Or maybe it was a little more complicated than that.Nick Page brings his skills as an unlicensed historian to bear on this key period in European (and world) history in order to uncover everything you need to know about the Reformation - with a fair few bits you never wanted to know thrown in for good ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Church in the Early Modern Age

    by C. Scott Dixon ...
    Series series I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church
    The years 1450-1650 were a momentous period for the development of Christianity. They witnessed the age of Reformation and Counter-Reformation: perhaps the most important era for the shaping of the faith since its foundation. C Scott Dixon explores how the ideas that went into the making of early modern Christianity re-oriented the Church to such an extent that they gave rise to new versions of ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • A Short History of the Wars of the Roses

    Revised Edition

    by David Grummitt ...
    Series series Short Histories
    Now in its second edition, A Short History of the Wars of the Roses is an accessible history of the English civil wars of the mid-15th century. It offers a comprehensive account of the major political events, detailing the 30-year struggle between the dynastic houses of Lancaster and York, and analysing the formal clashes of royalist and rebel armies, such as the battles at St Albans, Towton, and ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Roman Inquisition

    A Papal Bureaucracy and Its Laws in the Age of Galileo

    by Thomas F. Mayer ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    While the Spanish Inquisition has laid the greatest claim to both scholarly attention and the popular imagination, the Roman Inquisition, established in 1542 and a key instrument of papal authority, was more powerful, important, and long-lived. Founded by Paul III and originally aimed to eradicate Protestant heresy, it followed medieval antecedents but went beyond them by becoming a highly ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan Anti-Puritanism

    by Patrick Collinson ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
    This major new study is an exploration of the Elizabethan Puritan movement through the eyes of its most determined and relentless opponent, Richard Bancroft, later Archbishop of Canterbury. It analyses his obsession with the perceived threat to the stability of the church and state presented by the advocates of radical presbyterian reform. The book forensically examines Bancroft's polemical tracts ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism

    Edited by John Coffey, Paul C. H. Lim ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Religion
    'Puritan' was originally a term of contempt, and 'Puritanism' has often been stereotyped by critics and admirers alike. As a distinctive and particularly intense variety of early modern Reformed Protestantism, it was a product of acute tensions within the post-Reformation Church of England. But it was never monolithic or purely oppositional, and its impact reverberated far beyond seventeenth ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Oxford Movement

    Europe and the Wider World 1830–1930

    Edited by Stewart J. Brown, Peter B. Nockles ...
    The Oxford Movement transformed the nineteenth-century Church of England with a renewed conception of itself as a spiritual body. Initiated in the early 1830s by members of the University of Oxford, it was a response to threats to the established Church posed by British Dissenters, Irish Catholics, Whig and Radical politicians, and the predominant evangelical ethos - what Newman called 'the ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

  • Brethren in Christ

    A Calvinist Network in Reformation Europe

    by Ole Peter Grell ...
    This groundbreaking book explores the migration of Calvinist refugees in Europe during the Reformation, across a century of persecution, exile and minority existence. Ole Peter Grell follows the fortunes of some of the earliest Reformed merchant families, forced to flee from the Tuscan city of Lucca during the 1560s, through their journey to France during the Wars of Religion to the St Bartholomew ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Jesuit Suppression in Global Context

    Causes, Events, and Consequences

    Edited by Jeffrey D. Burson, Jonathan Wright ...
    In 1773, Pope Clement XIV suppressed the Society of Jesus, a dramatic, puzzling act that had a profound impact. This volume traces the causes of the attack on the Jesuits, the national expulsions that preceded universal suppression, and the consequences of these extraordinary developments. The Suppression occurred at a unique historical juncture, at the high-water mark of the Enlightenment and on ... Read more

    $109.09 USD