Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The passing of Protestant England The passing of Protestant England S. J. D. Green "In The Passing of Protestant England, S. J. D. Green offers an important new account of the causes, courses and consequences of the secularisation of English society. He argues that the critical cul… OL15521305W
A people of one book A people of one book Timothy Larsen The scripture-saturated culture of nineteenth-century England is displayed by Timothy Larsen in a series of lively case studies of representative figures ranging from the Quaker prison reformer Eliza… OL15934082W
God's empire God's empire Hilary M. Carey "In God's Empire", Hilary M. Carey charts Britain's nineteenth-century transformation from Protestant nation to free Christian empire through the history of the colonial missionary movement. This wid… OL16916575W
Taliesin Taliesin Matthews, John,John Matthews,Caitlín Matthews,Caitlin Matthews xv, 357 pages ; 23 cm OL1848200W
Reformation divided Reformation divided Eamon Duffy Published to mark the 500th anniversary of the events of 1517, Reformation Divided explores the impact in England of the cataclysmic transformations of European Christianity in the sixteenth and seve… OL19717477W
The elect Methodists The elect Methodists David Ceri Jones "The Elect Methodists is the first full-length academic study of Calvinistic Methodism, a movement that emerged in the eighteenth century as an alternative to the better-known Wesleyan grouping. Whil… OL20955024W
Pagan Britain Pagan Britain Ronald Hutton Britain's pagan past, with its astonishing number and variety of mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artefacts, bloodthirsty legends and cryptic inscriptions, has always enthralled and… OL20956800W
Restoration, Reformation, and Reform, 1660-1828 Restoration, Reformation, and Reform, 1660-1828 Jeremy Gregory x, 355 p. : 23 cm OL20988659W
Saints, Shrines and Pilgrims Saints, Shrines and Pilgrims Roger Rosewell 79 pages : 21 cm OL21135009W
Wide as the waters Wide as the waters Benson Bobrick "Next to the Bible itself, the English Bible was - and is - the most influential book ever published. The most famous of all English Bibles, the King James Version, was the culmination of centuries o… OL2650220W
Religion in late Roman Britain Religion in late Roman Britain Dorothy Watts Religion in Late Roman Britain explores the changes in religion over the fourth century; the historical background for these changes and the forces which contributed to them.Dorothy Watts examines th… OL2674813W