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Price: $21.00
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Sale: $12.42
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Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Carlo Ginzburg
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 909
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Publication Date: 1992-03-01
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: A survey of popular culture in 16th century Italy.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $11.51
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Daniell
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 920
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Publication Date: 2001-03-01
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Reading Level: 440
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Description: Several popular histories of the King James Bible are available to interested readers, including works that concentrate on the book's political influence Wide as the Waters) and its theological import (In the Beginning). Perhaps the most readable survey of the language of the King James Version, however, comes in the form of a biography of its primary translator. William Tyndale: A Biography by David Daniell (a University of London scholar and chairman of the William Tyndale Society) reveals all that is known of Tyndale's life, but its primary interest is in Tyndale's rhetorical style. Daniell asserts, convincingly, that Tyndale "made a language for England," in the same way that Martin Luther is acknowledged having united Germany's dialects in his German translation of the New Testament. The biography recites many widely known facts (Tyndale wrote nine-tenths of the King James Version's New Testament (the gospel Christmas stories--"there were shepherds abiding in the fields"--are Tyndale's), and half of its Old Testament ("Let there be light" is another of Tyndale's phrases). More importantly, Daniell's biography describes the development of Tyndale's skills as a linguist (he commanded eight languages, including Hebrew, at a time when Hebrew was virtually unknown in England) and parses Tyndale's adaptation of Greek, Hebrew, and Latin syntax into English. In the first sentence of his introduction to this book, Daniell states that "William Tyndale gave us our English Bible." The verb in that sentence is the key to this biography: it is a work of gratitude. --Michael Joseph Gross
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Price: $32.00
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Sale: $21.12
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Manufacturer: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robin A. Leaver
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Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 781.71410092
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Publication Date: 2007-04-15
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Reading Level: 485
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $8.24
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Manufacturer: Modern Library
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Patrick Collinson
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Publisher: Modern Library
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Dewey Decimal Number: 270.6
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Publication Date: 2006-09-05
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: “No revolution however drastic has ever involved a total repudiation of what came before it.”
The religious reformations of the sixteenth century were the crucible of modern Western civilization, profoundly reshaping the identity of Europe’s emerging nation-states. In The Reformation, one of the preeminent historians of the period, Patrick Collinson, offers a concise yet thorough overview of the drastic ecumenical revolution of the late medieval and Renaissance eras. In looking at the sum effect of such disparate elements as the humanist philosophy of Desiderius Erasmus and the impact on civilization of movable-type printing and “vulgate” scriptures, or in defining the differences between the evangelical (Lutheran) and reformed (Calvinist) churches, Collinson makes clear how the battles for mens’ lives were often hatched in the battles for mens’ souls.
Collinson also examines the interplay of spiritual and temporal matters in the spread of religious reform to all corners of Europe, and at how the Catholic Counter-Reformation used both coercion and institutional reform to retain its ecclesiastical control of Christendom. Powerful and remarkably well written, The Reformation is possibly the finest available introduction to this hugely important chapter in religious and political history.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $13.80
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Manufacturer: Overlook Hardcover
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Frank Welsh
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Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940
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Publication Date: 2008-09-04
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: At the dawn of the fifteenth century, Islam invaded Europe from the East and it seemed that Christendom itself was under threat. In an attempt to save the Christian world, the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund called a conference at Constance, beside the Rhine. The council attracted the greatest minds in the western world, as well as innumerable princes, lawyers, and prostitutes. In The Battle for Christendom, eminent historian Frank Welsh delves into this important incident and shows that it is in fact one of the central moments in European history. Schism had ravaged the Catholic Church and three Popes were claiming the seat of St. Peter's. The event would be a critical turning point in European history--the last event of the medieval world, heralding the dawn of the renaissance and the rise of humanism. Yet it would also hold a darker truth and with the burning of the Czech divine, Jan Hus, saw first moments of the Reformation. The story rises to a conclusion on the battlements of Constantinople in 1453 where, despite all of Sigismund's attempts to repel the Ottomans, Islam rose up once more. In Welsh's lively retelling, The Battle for Christendom is an exciting and readable story that holds lessons for our own times of international turmoil.
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Price: $75.00
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Sale: $43.85
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 283.092
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Publication Date: 1996-07-24
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Reading Level: 704
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Description: Don't go confusing your Thomas Cranmer with your Thomas More; now there is a Tudor faux-pas if ever there was one. Cranmer made the divorce happen, More lost his head over it. Cranmer wrote the Book of Common Prayer, More was the author of Utopia. And it was More who was canonized a saint, while Cranmer was executed by "Bloody" Mary Tudor for his fiendish plotting on behalf of Lady Jane Grey as well as for his embracing an evangelical brand of Protestantism the Catholic queen found wholly disagreeable. In this highly readable biography, we get the first new treatment of Cranmer in three decades, bolstered by recent scholarship and new sources. Think this stuff is remote? Cranmer, as Archbishop of Canterbury, crafted two editions of the English Book of Common Prayer. The success of this book had an enormous impact on the English language, loading terms with meaning and influencing the rhetoric of power for the next two centuries.
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Manufacturer: E P Dutton
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: W. L. Emmerson
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Publisher: E P Dutton
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Dewey Decimal Number: 270.6
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Publication Date: 1983-06
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Reading Level: 214
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Price: $27.99
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Sale: $23.30
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lee Palmer Wandel
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940
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Publication Date: 1999-09-13
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Reading Level: 219
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Description: This is an effort to recover the participation of ordinary Christians in the enterprise of Reformation through an exploration of the meaning of acts of iconoclasm: what they tell us about the role of images in Christianity and about ordinary people's theologies. Its focus, on ordinary Christians, distinguishes it from other studies of Reformation iconoclasm. Its concern, to recover their agency in Reformation and to discern their theology in acts, may be of interest to scholars in American history, anthropology, and religious studies.
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Price: $48.00
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Sale: $9.98
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Henry Kamen
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 272.20946
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Publication Date: 1998-03-30
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: Mention the Spanish Inquisition and immediately thoughts of brutal torture and callous witch-hunts spring to mind. Popular belief holds up this infamous institution as a symbol of religious and political intolerance--against the Protestants, Jews, Catholic heretics, and political orders such as the Knights Templar. Yet when Henry Kamen first wrote The Spanish Inquisition in 1965, he argued that the Inquisition was not as powerful or cruel as commonly conceived. This updated version of Kamen's hypothesis continues and reaffirms his original arguments. In this edition, Kamen provides additional evidence derived mostly from monographic studies conducted by other scholars that separates myth from reality; Kamen suggests that the Inquisition did not enjoy widespread popularity, in Spain or the rest of Europe, and that it was used as a device to scare off enemies. He also concludes that the failure of the Spanish populace to accept Lutheran principles had more to do with popular indifference toward Protestantism than interference from the Inquisition. Though Kamen's book is occasionally lacking in social analysis, this revisionist overview of the Inquisition's impact on Europe is rich in detail and will appeal to anyone who has an interest in this period.
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Price: $21.00
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Sale: $16.00
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Manufacturer: T A N Books & Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William Cobbett
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Publisher: T A N Books & Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 270
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Publication Date: 1988-10
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Reading Level: 406
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