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  • Cromwell and Scotland

    Conquest and Religion 1650-1660

    by R. Scott Spurlock ...
    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 positions, and gained support, in overtly religious terms. During their decade-long occupation of Scotland, the English Commonwealth actively sought to ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Puritans and Catholics in the Trans-Atlantic World 1600-1800

    Edited by Crawford Gribben, Scott Spurlock ...
    Series series History (R0)
    For many English puritans, the new world represented new opportunities for the reification of reformation, if not a site within which they might begin to experience the conditions of the millennium itself. For many Irish Catholics, by contrast, the new world became associated with the experience of defeat, forced transportation, indentured service, cultural and religious loss. And yet, as the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Worldly Saints

    The Puritans As They Really Were

    by Leland Ryken ...
    "Ryken's Worldly Saints offers a fine introduction to seventeenth-century Puritanism in its English and American contexts. The work is rich in quotations from Puritan worthies and is ideally suited to general readers who have not delved widely into Puritan literature. It will also be a source of information and inspiration to those who seek a clearer understanding of the Puritan roots of American ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • 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

    $38.09 USD

  • Puritanism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Francis J. Bremer ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Written by a leading expert on the Puritans, this brief, informative volume offers a wealth of background on this key religious movement. This book traces the shaping, triumph, and decline of the Puritan world, while also examining the role of religion in the shaping of American society and the role of the Puritan legacy in American history. Francis J. Bremer discusses the rise of Puritanism in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • John Winthrop

    America's Forgotten Founding Father

    by Francis J. Bremer ...
    The preeminent figure of early New England, John Winthrop was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. More than anyone else, he shaped the culture of New England and his effort to create a Puritan "City on a Hill" has had a lasting effect on American values. In John Winthrop, Francis J. Bremer draws on over a decade of research in England, Ireland, and the United States to offer a ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Christian Slavery

    Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World

    by Katharine Gerbner ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In Christian Slavery, Katharine Gerbner contends that religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and race in the Protestant Atlantic world. Slave owners in the Caribbean and elsewhere established governments and legal codes based on an ideology of ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution

    Edited by Laura Lunger Knoppers ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This Handbook offers a comprehensive introduction and thirty-seven new essays by an international team of literary critics and historians on the writings generated by the tumultuous events of mid-seventeenth-century England. Unprecedented events-civil war, regicide, the abolition of monarchy, proscription of episcopacy, constitutional experiment, and finally the return of monarchy-led to an ... Read more

    $144.89 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion

    Edited by Andrew Hiscock, Helen Wilcox ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the most turbulent times in the history of the British church and, perhaps as a result, produced some of the greatest devotional poetry, sermons, polemics, and epics of literature in English. The ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • The Book of Books

    The Radical Impact of the King James Bible 1611-2011

    by Melvyn Bragg ...
    A fascinating, in-depth history of the King James Bible (KJV)—the best-selling book in the world—and its lasting impact on language, literature, politics, and religionThe King James Bible has often been called the “Book of Books,” both in itself and in what it stands for. Since its publication in 1611, it has been the best–selling book in the world, and many believe, it has had the greatest impact ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Worlds Of Wonder, Days Of Judgment

    Popular Religious Belief in Early New England

    by David D. Hall ...
    This book tells an extraordinary story of the people of early New England and their spiritual lives. It is about ordinary people--farmers, housewives, artisans, merchants, sailors, aspiring scholars--struggling to make sense of their time and place on earth. David Hall describes a world of religious consensus and resistance: a variety of conflicting beliefs and believers ranging from the committed ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, c. 1530-1700

    Edited by Kevin Killeen, Helen Smith, Rachel Judith Willie ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Bible was, by any measure, the most important book in early modern England. It preoccupied the scholarship of the era, and suffused the idioms of literature and speech. Political ideas rode on its interpretation and deployed its terms. It was intricately related to the project of natural philosophy. And it was central to daily life at all levels of society from parliamentarian to preacher, ... Read more

    $41.39 USD