Author: Thomas PowysPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
A Sermon Preached Before the Honourable House of Commons
Author: Thomas PowysThe Gentleman's Magazine
Author: Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle
Author: Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review
Author: The Gentleman's Magazine: Or, Monthly Intelligencer
Author: Edward CavePublisher:
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Category : Books and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
A War of Ideas
Author: Emma Vincent MacleodPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429841906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The responses of British people to the French Revolution has recently received considerable attention from historians. British commentators often expressed a sense of the novelty and scale of European wars which followed, yet their views on this conflict have not yet attracted such thorough examination. This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of the attitudes of various groups of British people to the conflict during the 1790’s: the Government, their supporters and their opponents inside and outside Parliament, women, churchmen, and the broad mass of British public opinion. It presents the debate in England and Scotland provoked by the war both as the sequel to the French Revolution and as a distinct debate in itself. Emma Vincent Macleod argues that contemporaries saw this conflict as one of the first since the wars of religion to be significantly shaped by ideological hostility rather than solely by a struggle over strategic interests.
A Sermon Preached Before the Honourable House of Commons, at the Church of St. Margaret, Westminster, on Wednesday, March 8, 1797
Author: Thomas Powys (Dean of Canterbury.)Publisher:
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Category : Fast-day sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
A Protestant Purgatory
Author: Laurie ThronessPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351961993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
How did the penitentiary get its name? Why did the English impose long prison sentences? Did class and economic conflict really lie at the heart of their correctional system? In a groundbreaking study that challenges the assumptions of modern criminal justice scholarship, Laurie Throness answers many questions like these by exposing the deep theological roots of the judicial institutions of eighteenth-century Britain. The book offers a scholarly account of the passage of the Penitentiary Act of 1779, combining meticulous attention to detail with a sweeping theological overview of the century prior to the Act. But it is not just an intellectual history. It tells a fascinating story of a broader religious movement, and the people and beliefs that motivated them to create a new institution. The work is original because it relies so completely on original sources. It is mystical because it mingles heavenly with earthly justice. It is authoritative because of its explanatory power. Its anecdotes and insights, poetry and song, provide intriguing glimpses into another era strangely familiar to our own. Of special interest to social and legal historians, criminologists, and theologians, this work will also appeal to a wider audience of those who are interested in Christianity's impact on Western culture and institutions.
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