Conversations at Little Gidding
 One of the most original aspects of life at Little Gidding was the 'Little Academy' founded by Nicholas Ferrar, his nieces and some other members of the community for their common instruction and enjoyment. At regular meetings, members of the Little [... more]
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Mistress Anne
She's on my list of worst "historians": I am a specialist in British Renaissance literature and history. This book made me so angry that I literally threw it at the wall--before I threw it in the trash. As others have noted, Erickson is biased [... more]
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The World of Emperor Charles V
divThe lengthy and eventful reign of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V has long intrigued European historians with its significant accomplishments in commerce, politics, and culture. This volume is the result of an international colloquium that sought to [... more]
$65.14
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The Religious Case Against Belief
BA provocative, insightful explanation for why it is that belief}not religion}keeps us in a perilous state of willful ignorance/BBRBRIn IThe Religious Case Against Belief/I, James Carse identifies the twenty-first century}s most forbidding villain: [... more]
$3.87
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Conversations at Little Gidding
Provides a full introduction and notes describing the members of the ???Little Academy??? and giving the background of two dialogues that he has reproduced.One of the most original aspects of life at Little Gidding was the ???Little Academy??? founded by [... more]
$71.29
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Henry VIII (Penguin Classic Biography)
The Best Bio of Henry VIII: Sometimes appearances can be deceiving. When I first received this book and saw how HUGE it was (and in small print, yet), I thought I was in for a long, tedious and boring read. In other words, the kind of book that you start [... more]
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Augsburg Confession
A handy pocketbook: This is an English translation of the Augsburg Confession, the key formative Lutheran Confession from 1530. The original Augsburg Confession was produced in German and Latin, and read out in the Augsburg conference in German (hence [... more]
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The Heidenmauer: the Benedictines, a legend of the Rhine
Passions and Reason collide with Historical Inevitability in the Rhineland of the Reformation: Cooper's 1829 novel THE HEIDENMAUER can be read on four or five levels: for its inmost core plot, for the full plot and subplots, for the history of Germany in [... more]
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Great Harry
Almost, but not quite: Erickson is a great biographer, and her Tudor quartet are lively and throughly enjoyable. But one of her strengths--her ability to write as a novelist--makes her inevitably biased to her hero or heroine. In Great Harry, it's clear [... more]
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Francis I
A scholarly portrait of an important monarch: The first half of the 16C saw the remarkable ascendance of three influential figures - Henry VIII of England, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (Charles I of Aragon, Castile, and Naples), and François I of [... more]
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Imperial Spain: 1469-1716 (Penguin History)
A justly celebrated historical classic: Over the years I have managed to read a fairly large number of historical works dedicated to surveying particular periods of history, but I have rarely found one that managed to combine learning with readability as [... more]
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Imperial Spain: 1469-1716
A justly celebrated historical classic: Over the years I have managed to read a fairly large number of historical works dedicated to surveying particular periods of history, but I have rarely found one that managed to combine learning with readability as [... more]
$17.00
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