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  • 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

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  • Foxe's Book of Martyrs

    Including a sketch of the Author (Large print for comfortable reading)

    by John Foxe ...
    The object of this work, is to give a brief history of persecution since the first introduction of christianity, till the present time. In doing this, we have commenced with the martyrdom of Stephen, and following the course of events, have brought the History of persecution down to the year 1830. In all ages, we find that a disposition to persecute for opinion's sake, has been manifested by ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • 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
    The Reformation transformed Europe, and left an indelible mark on the modern world. It began as an argument about what Christians needed to do to be saved, but rapidly engulfed society in a series of fundamental changes. This Very Short Introduction provides a lively and up-to-date guide to the process. It explains doctrinal debates in a clear and non-technical way, but is equally concerned to ... Read more

    $7.99 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

    $60.99 USD

  • French Books of Hours

    Making an Archive of Prayer, c.1400–1600

    by Virginia Reinburg ...
    The Book of Hours was a 'best-seller' in medieval and early modern Europe, the era's most commonly produced and owned book. This interdisciplinary study explores its increasing popularity and prestige, offering a full account of the Book of Hours as a book - how it was acquired, how it was read to guide prayer and teach literacy and what it meant to its owners as a personal possession. Based on ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • 1517

    Martin Luther and the Invention of the Reformation

    by Peter Marshall ...
    Martin Luther's posting of the 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on 31 October 1517 is one of the most famous events of Western history. It inaugurated the Protestant Reformation, and has for centuries been a powerful and enduring symbol of religious freedom of conscience, and of righteous protest against the abuse of power. But did it actually really happen? In this ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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  • 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 Reformation of the English Parish Church

    by Robert Whiting ...
    In the sixteenth century, the people of England witnessed the physical transformation of their most valued buildings: their parish churches. This is the first ever full-scale investigation of the dramatic changes experienced by the English parish church during the English Reformation. By drawing on a wealth of documentary evidence, including court records, wills and church wardens' accounts, and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Popes and Britain

    A History of Rule, Rupture and Reconciliation

    by Dr Stella Fletcher ...
    When the British thought of themselves as a Protestant nation their natural enemy was the pope and they adapted their view of history accordingly. In contrast, Rome's perspective was always considerably wider and its view of Britain was almost invariably positive, especially in comparison to medieval emperors, who made and unmade popes, and post-medieval Frenchmen, who treated popes with contempt. ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation

    Edited by Peter Marshall ...
    Series series Oxford Illustrated History
    The Reformation was a seismic event in history, whose consequences are still working themselves out in Europe and across the world. The protests against the marketing of indulgences staged by the German monk Martin Luther in 1517 belonged to a long-standing pattern of calls for internal reform and renewal in the Christian Church. But they rapidly took a radical and unexpected turn, engulfing first ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Seeking Sanctuary

    Crime, Mercy, and Politics in English Courts, 1400-1550

    by Shannon McSheffrey ...
    Seeking Sanctuary explores a curious aspect of premodern English law: the right of felons to shelter in a church or ecclesiastical precinct, remaining safe from arrest and trial in the king's courts. This is the first volume in more than a century to examine sanctuary in England in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Looking anew at this subject challenges the prevailing assumptions in the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD