Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385533171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
"The Counter Reformation Movement," and Suggestions for the Solution of Present Difficulties. A Reply to the Pastoral Letter of the Right Rev. Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385533171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1308
Book Description
The Pall Mall Budget
Author: Broken Idols of the English Reformation
Author: Margaret AstonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316060470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1994
Book Description
Why were so many religious images and objects broken and damaged in the course of the Reformation? Margaret Aston's magisterial new book charts the conflicting imperatives of destruction and rebuilding throughout the English Reformation from the desecration of images, rails and screens to bells, organs and stained glass windows. She explores the motivations of those who smashed images of the crucifixion in stained glass windows and who pulled down crosses and defaced symbols of the Trinity. She shows that destruction was part of a methodology of religious revolution designed to change people as well as places and to forge in the long term new generations of new believers. Beyond blanked walls and whited windows were beliefs and minds impregnated by new modes of religious learning. Idol-breaking with its emphasis on the treacheries of images fundamentally transformed not only Anglican ways of worship but also of seeing, hearing and remembering.
Witch Craze
Author: Lyndal RoperPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300119831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A powerful account of witches, crones, and the societies that make them From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries thousands of women confessed to being witches--of making pacts with the Devil, causing babies to sicken, and killing animals and crops--and were put to death. This book is a gripping account of the pursuit, interrogation, torture, and burning of witches during this period and beyond. Drawing on hundreds of original trial transcripts and other rare sources in four areas of Southern Germany, where most of the witches were executed, Lyndal Roper paints a vivid picture of their lives, families, and tribulations. She also explores the psychology of witch-hunting, explaining why it was mostly older women that were the victims of witch crazes, why they confessed to crimes, and how the depiction of witches in art and literature has influenced the characterization of elderly women in our own culture.
A History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Author: Charles Spencer SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England
Author: Edward Lewes CuttsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The Debate on the English Reformation
Author: Rosemary O'DayPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135835330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The English Puritans
Author: John BrownThe History and Present State of Virginia
Author: Robert BeverleyPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469607956
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
While in London in 1705, Robert Beverley wrote and published The History and Present State of Virginia, one of the earliest printed English-language histories about North America by an author born there. Like his brother-in-law William Byrd II, Beverley was a scion of Virginia's planter elite, personally ambitious and at odds with royal governors in the colony. As a native-born American--most famously claiming "I am an Indian--he provided English readers with the first thoroughgoing account of the province's past, natural history, Indians, and current politics and society. In this new edition, Susan Scott Parrish situates Beverley and his History in the context of the metropolitan-provincial political and cultural issues of his day and explores the many contradictions embedded in his narrative. Parrish's introduction and the accompanying annotation, along with a fresh transcription of the 1705 publication and a more comprehensive comparison of emendations in the 1722 edition, will open Beverley's History to new, twenty-first-century readings by students of transatlantic history, colonialism, natural science, literature, and ethnohistory.