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  • The Railways of London Docklands

    Their History and Development

    by Jonathan Willis ...
    This book provides a comprehensive study of the planning and building of railways in London's Docklands, reflecting on the past 180 years of railway development. It describes the creation of the enclosed working docks at the start of the 19th Century and the introduction of railways in the middle of the century. By the 1970's the decline of the working docks led to a plethora of plans to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sin and Salvation in Reformation England

    by Jonathan Willis ...
    Series series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
    Notions of which behaviours comprised sin, and what actions might lead to salvation, sat at the heart of Christian belief and practice in early modern England, but both of these vitally important concepts were fundamentally reconfigured by the reformation. Remarkably little work has been undertaken exploring the ways in which these essential ideas were transformed by the religious changes of the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Reformation of the Decalogue

    Religious Identity and the Ten Commandments in England, c.1485–1625

    by Jonathan Willis ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
    The Reformation of the Decalogue tells two important but previously untold stories: of how the English Reformation transformed the meaning of the Ten Commandments, and of the ways in which the Ten Commandments helped to shape the English Reformation itself. Adopting a thematic structure, it contributes new insights to the history of the English Reformation, covering topics such as monarchy and law ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England

    Discourses, Sites and Identities

    by Jonathan Willis ...
    Series series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
    'Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England' breaks new ground in the religious history of Elizabethan England, through a closely focused study of the relationship between the practice of religious music and the complex process of Protestant identity formation. Hearing was of vital importance in the early modern period, and music was one of the most prominent, powerful and emotive ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Dying, Death, Burial and Commemoration in Reformation Europe

    by Elizabeth C. Tingle, Jonathan Willis ...
    Series series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
    In recent years, the rituals and beliefs associated with the end of life and the commemoration of the dead have increasingly been identified as of critical importance in understanding the social and cultural impact of the Reformation. The associated processes of dying, death and burial inevitably generated heightened emotion and a strong concern for religious propriety: the ways in which funerary ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources

    Edited by Laura Sangha, Jonathan Willis ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources
    Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources is an introduction to the rich treasury of source material available to students of early modern history. During this period, political development, economic and social change, rising literacy levels, and the success of the printing press, ensured that the State, the Church and the people generated texts and objects on an unprecedented scale. This book ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Tyndale

    The Man Who Gave God an English Voice

    by David Teems ...
    It was an outlawed book, a text so dangerous "it could only be countered by the most vicious burnings, of books and men and women." But what book could incite such violence and bloodshed? The year is 1526. It is the age of Henry VIII and his tragic Anne Boleyn, of Martin Luther and Thomas More. The times are treacherous. The Catholic Church controls almost every aspect of English life, including ... Read more

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  • The Stripping of the Altars

    Traditional Religion in England, 1400?1580, Second Edition

    by Eamon Duffy ...
    This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion in fifteenth-century England. Eamon Duffy shows that late medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a strong and vigorous tradition, and that the Reformation represented a violent rupture from a popular and theologically respectable religious system. For this edition, Duffy ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Common Prayers

    The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age

    by Daniel Swift ...
    Societies and entire nations draw their identities from certain founding documents, whether charters, declarations, or manifestos. The Book of Common Prayer figures as one of the most crucial in the history of the English-speaking peoples. First published in 1549 to make accessible the devotional language of the late Henry the VIII's new church, the prayer book was a work of monumental religious, ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The Stripping of the Altars

    Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580

    by Eamon Duffy ...
    This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion, showing that late-medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but a strong and vigorous tradition. For this edition, Duffy has written a new introduction reflecting on recent developments in our understanding of the period.“A mighty and momentous book: a book to be read and re-read, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, c. 1530-1700

    Edited by Kevin Killeen, Helen Smith, Rachel Judith Willie ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Bible was, by any measure, the most important book in early modern England. It preoccupied the scholarship of the era, and suffused the idioms of literature and speech. Political ideas rode on its interpretation and deployed its terms. It was intricately related to the project of natural philosophy. And it was central to daily life at all levels of society from parliamentarian to preacher, ... Read more

    $41.39 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