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“nigel aston”

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  • The Anglican Episcopate 1689-1800

    Edited by Nigel Aston, William Gibson ...
    The eighteenth-century bishops of the Church of England and its sister communions had immense status and authority in both secular society and the Church. They fully merit fresh examination in the light of recent scholarship, and in this volume leading experts offer a comprehensive survey and assessment of all things episcopal between the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688 and the early nineteenth ... Read more

    $79.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Art and Religion in Eighteenth Century Europe

    by Nigel Aston ...
    Eighteenth-century Europe witnessed monumental upheavals in both the Catholic and Protestant faiths and the repercussions rippled down to the churches' religious art forms. In this major new study, Nigel Aston chronicles the intertwining of cultural and institutional turmoil during this pivotal century.The sustained production and popularity of religious art in the face of competition from ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Enlightened Oxford

    The University and the Cultural and Political Life of Eighteenth-Century Britain and Beyond

    by Nigel Aston ...
    Enlightened Oxford aims to discern, establish, and clarify the multiplicity of connections between the University of Oxford, its members, and the world outside; to offer readers a fresh, contextualised sense of the University's role in the state, in society, and in relation to other institutions between the Williamite Revolution and the first decade of the nineteenth century, the era loosely ... Read more

    $132.99 USD

  • Boswell and the Press

    Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell

    by Donald J. Newman, Paul Tankard, James J. Caudle, Terry Seymour, Celia Barnes, Allan Ingram, Jennifer Preston Wilson, Nigel Aston ...
    Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell is the first sustained examination of James Boswell’s ephemeral writing, his contributions to periodicals, his pamphlets, and his broadsides. The essays collected here enhance our comprehension of his interests, capabilities, and proclivities as an author and refine our understanding of how the print environment in which he ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Negotiating Toleration

    Dissent and the Hanoverian Succession, 1714-1760

    Edited by Nigel Aston, Benjamin Bankhurst ...
    1714 was a revolutionary year for Dissenters across the British Empire. The Hanoverian Succession upended a political and religious order antagonistic to Protestant non-conformity and replaced it with a regime that was, ostensibly, sympathetic to the Whig interest. The death of Queen Anne and the dawn of Hanoverian Rule presented Dissenters with fresh opportunities and new challenges as they ... Read more

    $91.79 USD

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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 Catholics

    The Church and its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day

    by Roy Hattersley ...
    The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history – 'A first-class storyteller' The TimesThroughout the three hundred years that followed the Act of Supremacy – which, by making Henry VIII head of the Church, confirmed in law the breach with Rome – English Catholics were prosecuted, persecuted and penalised for the public expression of ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • The Bible War In Ireland

    The 'Second Reformation' and the Polarization of Protestant-Catholic Relations, 1800-1840

    by Irene Whelan ...
    At the end of the eighteenth century an evangelical movement gained enormous popularity at all levels of Irish society. Initially driven by the enthusiasm and commitment of Methodists and Dissenters, it quickly gained ascendancy in the Church of Ireland, where its unique blend of moral improvement and conservative piety appealed to those threatened by the democratic revolution and the demands of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Victorian Protestantism and Bloody Mary

    the legacy of religious persecution in Tudor England

    by Peter Wickins ...
    This is an important and intereseting book on aspects of our religious heritage which until now have escaped the investigation of scholars. History is all too often employed as a weapon for smiting the "infidel." By the beginning of the Victorian era after the somnolence of the 18th century, religious enthusiasm among both clergy and laity in the established Church arrived. This brought about such ... Read more

    $10.13 USD

  • 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

  • Religion, Loyalty and Sedition

    The Hanoverian Succession of 1714

    Edited by William Gibson ...
    The Hanoverian Succession of 1714 has not attracted the scholarly attention that it deserves. This is partly because the idea of the ‘long eighteenth century’, stretching from 1688 to 1832, has tended to treat the period as one without breaks. However, 1714 was in some respects as significant a date as 1688. It was the last time in British history that there was a dynastic change and one in which ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Elizabeth I and Religion 1558-1603

    by Susan Doran ...
    Series series Lancaster Pamphlets
    Susan Doran describes and analyses the process of the Elizabethan Reformation, placing it in an English and a European context. She examines the religious views and policies of the Queen, the making of the 1559 settlement and the resulting reforms. The changing beliefs of the English people are discussed, and the author charts the fortunes of both Puritanism and Catholicism. Finally she looks at ... Read more

    $55.99 USD