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  • Freedom of speech, 1500–1850

    Edited by Robert Ingram, Jason Peacey, Alex W. Barber ...
    Series series Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
    This collection brings together historians, political theorists and literary scholars to provide historical perspectives on the modern debate over freedom of speech, particularly the question of whether limitations might be necessary given religious pluralism and concerns about hate speech. It integrates religion into the history of free speech and rethinks what is sometimes regarded as a coherent ... Read more

    Was $91.99 USD Now $26.99 USD

  • Reformation without end

    Religion, politics and the past in post-revolutionary England

    by Robert Ingram ...
    Series series Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
    This study provides a radical reassessment of the English Reformation. No one in eighteenth-century England thought that they were living during ‘the Enlightenment’; instead, they saw themselves as facing the religious, intellectual and political problems unleashed by the Reformation, which began in the sixteenth century. Moreover, they faced those problems in the aftermath of two bloody ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • People power

    Popular sovereignty from Machiavelli to modernity

    Edited by Robert Ingram, Christopher Barker ...
    People power explores the history of the theory and practice of popular power. Western thinking about politics has two fundamental features: 1) popular power in practice is problematic and 2) nothing confers political legitimacy except popular sovereignty. This book explains how we got to our current default position, in which rule of, for and by the people is simultaneously a practical problem ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Researching Transitions in Lifelong Learning

    Edited by John Field, Jim Gallacher, Robert Ingram ...
    In today’s society, people and organisations increasingly undergo processes of transition. Experiences of change affect all areas of life: our jobs, relationships, status, communities, engagement in civil society, lifestyles, even understandings of our own identity. Each person must expect and make ready for transitions, engaging in learning as a fundamental strategy for handling change. This is ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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  • Religion and the Decline of Magic

    Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England

    by Sir Keith Thomas ...
    Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods. At the same time the Protestant Reformation attempted to take the magic out of religion, and scientists were developing new ... Read more

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  • Anglicanism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mark Chapman ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is Anglicanism? How is it different from other forms of Christianity, and how did it come to have so many different versions throughout the world? Although originally united by location and a common belief, Anglicanism has gradually lost its pre-eminence as the English state church due to increasing pluralisation and secularisation. While there are distinctive themes and emphases which emerge ... Read more

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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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  • Culture and Anarchy

    by Matthew Arnold ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.' Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society that are as relevant now as they have ever been. Arnold seeks to find out 'what culture really is, what good it can do, what is our own special need ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Anglican Theology

    by Mark Chapman ...
    Series series Doing Theology
    This book seeks to explain the ways in which Anglicans have sought to practise theology in their various contexts. It is a clear, insightful, and reliable guide which avoids technical jargon and roots its discussions in concrete examples. The book is primarily a work of historical theology, which engages deeply with key texts and writers from across the tradition (e.g. Cranmer, Jewel, Hooker, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • All Things Made New

    The Reformation and Its Legacy

    by Diarmaid MacCulloch ...
    The most profound characteristic of Western Europe in the Middle Ages was its cultural and religious unity, a unity secured by a common alignment with the Pope in Rome, and a common language - Latin - for worship and scholarship. The Reformation shattered that unity, and the consequences are still with us today. In All Things Made New, Diarmaid MacCulloch, author of the New York Times bestseller ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The "Book of Common Prayer"

    A Biography

    by Alan Jacobs ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    While many of us are familiar with such famous words as, "Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here. . ." or "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust," we may not know that they originated with The Book of Common Prayer, which first appeared in 1549. Like the words of the King James Bible and Shakespeare, the language of this prayer book has saturated English culture and letters. Here Alan Jacobs tells ... Read more

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  • John Henry Newman

    A Very Brief History

    by Eamon Duffy ...
    Series series Very Brief Histories
    'In another world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.'From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1903)Canonized by Pope Francis in October 2019, Saint John Henry Newman (1801-90) was one of the most controversial and influential thinkers of his day. He is now recognized as one of the finest prose stylists of modern times, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD