Religious History

An essential introduction to one of the world’s great religious traditions, written in a vivid, lively style by an experienced teacher...

The three narratives in this volume constitute a complete history of the missionary undertakings of the Society of Jesus in the East Indies, China, Japan and Africa during the first decade of the seventeenth century...

John Bunyan’s Imaginary Writings in Context..

This collection of papers, first published in 1992, grew out of a concern for the perduring nature of the thought of John Henry Cardinal Newman. Although Cardinal Newman died over one hundred years ago, his influence on today’s thinking is still strong. Newman put forward an ideal of society and lif..

Professor Sawyer offers some new interpretations of the development of Scandinavian society and the history of the Christian conversion...

This volume brings together a selection of the papers on the theme of the Papacy and the Crusades, delivered at the 7th Congress of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. The first papers examine aspects of crusader terminology. The next section deals with events and perceptio..

This volume brings together a selection of the papers on the theme of the Papacy and the Crusades, delivered at the 7th Congress of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. The first papers examine aspects of crusader terminology. The next section deals with events and perceptio..

Charting the history of the Muggletonians from their beginnings in the 1650s to the death of the last believer in 1979, this book provides a lively and engaging history of one of England's most fascinating religious sects. By following the history of the Muggletonians from the heady post-civil days ..

This collection brings together lawyers and theologians in the U.S. and Europe to reflect on Lutheran understandings of the political use of the law by secular governments. The work discusses the application of Lutheran theological principles to contemporary issues such as Native land rights, proper..

An engaging and comprehensive new edition of this established biography provides students with an understanding of the European Reformation through the life of its key mover, Martin Luther. Working chronologically through Luther’s life, Michael Mullet explains and analyses Luther’s background, the d..

An engaging and comprehensive new edition of this established biography provides students with an understanding of the European Reformation through the life of its key mover, Martin Luther. Working chronologically through Luther’s life, Michael Mullet explains and analyses Luther’s background, the d..

We assume that we have a clear understanding of how people in the Middle Ages thought and which attitudes they struck but in reality this is a subject of enormous complexity of which conclusions can only be drawn via painstaking archival research and decades of study. Giles Constable has spent a car..