Christianity
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Cromwell and Scotland: Conquest and Religion 1650-1660 [Paperback]
R. Scott Spurlock(Author)
$34.95ISBN: 9781910900437
Published by : John Donald
This book examines the role of religion in the story of Oliver Cromwell’s invasion and subsequent occupation of Scotland. Analysis of the printed propaganda produced by the Scots and the English makes it clear that both nations defined their... .... Learn More -
Labour & Christianity in the Mission: African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864-1926 [Hardback]
Michelle Liebst(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781847012753
Published by : James Currey
Series: Religion in Transforming Africa
Volume: Volume 6
The important role missions played as places of work has been underexplored, yet missionaries were some of the earliest Europeans who tried to control African labor. African mission workers' roles were not just religious and educational, as they w... .... Learn More -
Saints' Legends in Late Medieval Sarum Breviaries: Catalogue and Studies [Hardback]
Sherry L. Reames(Author)
$220.00ISBN: 9781903153994
Published by : York Medieval Press
Series: York Manuscript and Early Print Studies
Volume: Volume 2
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The Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary [Hardback]
Liz Herbert McAvoy(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843845980
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages
Volume: Volume 4
During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus - was a common literary device. Usually associated with the Virgin Mary or the Lady of popular... .... Learn More -
Augustus Hopkins Strong and the Struggle to Reconcile Christian Theology with Modern Thought [Paperback]
John Aloisi(Author)
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Henry VIII and Martin Luther: The Second Controversy, 1525-1527 [Hardback]
Richard Rex(Editor)
$115.00ISBN: 9781783275816
Published by : Boydell Press
A modern critical edition of Henry VIII's second published work against Martin Luther. This open letter to Luther, printed at the king's command in December 1526, was in reply to a private letter addressed to him by Luther the previous year. Its p... .... Learn More -
Rational Dissenters in Late Eighteenth-Century England: An ardent desire of truth' [Hardback]
Valerie Smith(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783275663
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Studies in Modern British Religious History
Volume: Volume 42
Rational Dissent was a branch of Protestant religious nonconformity which emerged to prominence in England between c. 1770 and c. 1800. Based on the sole study of the Scriptures and the application of individual reasoning to understanding the word... .... Learn More -
Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda [Hardback]
Jonathon L. Earle(Author); J.J. Carney(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781847012401
Published by : James Currey
Series: Religion in Transforming Africa
Volume: Volume 4
Assassinated by Idi Amin and a democratic ally of J.F. Kennedy during the Cold War, Benedicto Kiwanuka was Uganda's most controversial and disruptive politician, and his legacy is still divisive. On the eve of independence, he led the Democratic P... .... Learn More -
Inauguration and Liturgical Kingship in the Long Twelfth Century: Male and Female Accession Rituals in England, France and the Empire [Paperback]
Johanna Dale(Author)
$24.95ISBN: 9781903153987
Published by : York Medieval Press
The long twelfth century heralded a fundamental transformation of monarchical power, which became increasingly law-based and institutionalised. Traditionally this modernisation of kingship, in conjunction with the ecclesiastical reform movement, h... .... Learn More -
The Right Ordering of Souls': The Parish of All Saints' Bristol on the Eve of the Reformation [Paperback]
Clive Burgess(Author)
$24.95ISBN: 9781783275847
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
Volume: Volume 47
In the two centuries preceding the Reformation in England, economic, political and spiritual conditions combined with constructive effect. Endemic plague prompted a demonstrative piety and, in a world enjoying rising disposable incomes, this linke... .... Learn More
