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Themes: Renaissance • Christianity • Europe

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The Last Divine Office Henry VIII and the Dissolution of the Monasteries

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Themes: Renaissance • Christianity • Europe

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Martin Luther Rebel in an Age of Upheaval

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Themes: Renaissance • Christianity • Europe

Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair — John Bossy

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Themes: Renaissance • Christianity • Europe

Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions The Mind of Samuel Rutherford — John Coffey

Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions The Mind of Samuel Rutherford

Themes: Renaissance • Christianity • Europe

The World of Rural Dissenters, 1520-1725 — Margaret Spufford

The World of Rural Dissenters, 1520-1725

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Themes: Renaissance • Christianity • Europe

Katherine Parr Opportunist, Queen, Reformer: a Theological Perspective — Don Matzat

Katherine Parr Opportunist, Queen, Reformer: a Theological Perspective

Themes: Renaissance • Christianity • Europe

The ‘Commentaries’ of Pope Pius II (1458-1464) and the Crisis of the Fifteenth-Century Papacy — Emily OBrien

The ‘Commentaries’ of Pope Pius II (1458-1464) and the Crisis of the Fifteenth-Century Papacy

Themes: Renaissance • Christianity • Europe

Reading Augustine in the Reformation The Flexibility of Intellectual Authority in Europe, 1500-1620 — Arnoud S. Q. Visser

Reading Augustine in the Reformation The Flexibility of Intellectual Authority in Europe, 1500-1620

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Themes: Renaissance • Christianity • Europe

English Benedictine Nuns in Exile in the Seventeenth Century Living Spirituality — Laurence Lux-Sterritt

English Benedictine Nuns in Exile in the Seventeenth Century Living Spirituality

Laurence Lux-Sterritt

Themes: Renaissance • Christianity • Europe

The Personal Luther Essays on the Reformer from a Cultural Historical Perspective — Susan C. Karant-Nunn

The Personal Luther Essays on the Reformer from a Cultural Historical Perspective

Susan C. Karant-Nunn

Themes: Renaissance • Christianity • Europe

Pascal’s Pensées — Blaise Pascal

Pascal’s Pensées

Themes: Renaissance • Christianity • Europe

Catherine de Medici Renaissance Queen of France — Leonie Frieda

Catherine de Medici Renaissance Queen of France

Themes: Renaissance • Christianity • Europe

Francis Turretin (1623-87) and the Reformed Tradition — Nicholas A. Cumming

Francis Turretin (1623-87) and the Reformed Tradition

Nicholas A. Cumming

Themes: Renaissance • Christianity • Europe

Jerome of Prague and the Foundations of the Hussite Movement — Thomas A. Fudge

Jerome of Prague and the Foundations of the Hussite Movement

Thomas A. Fudge

Themes: Renaissance • Christianity • Europe

Reformation England 1480-1642 — Peter Marshall

Reformation England 1480-1642

Themes: Renaissance • Christianity • Europe

Rome and the Maronites in the Renaissance and Reformation The Formation of Religious Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean — Sam Kennerley

Rome and the Maronites in the Renaissance and Reformation The Formation of Religious Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Themes: Renaissance • Christianity • Europe

The Huguenots in Later Stuart Britain — Robin D. Gwynn

The Huguenots in Later Stuart Britain

Themes: Renaissance • Christianity • Europe

Catholic Identity and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1520-1635 — Judith Pollmann

Catholic Identity and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1520-1635

Judith Pollmann

Themes: Renaissance • Christianity • Europe

Transgressing the Bounds Subversive Enterprises Among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630-1692 — Louise A. Breen

Transgressing the Bounds Subversive Enterprises Among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630-1692

Louise A. Breen

Themes: Renaissance • Christianity • Europe

Protestants The Radicals who Made the Modern World — Alec Ryrie

Protestants The Radicals who Made the Modern World

Themes: Renaissance • Christianity • Europe

The Sistine Chapel The History and Legacy of the World’s Most Famous Chapel — Charles River Editors

The Sistine Chapel The History and Legacy of the World’s Most Famous Chapel

Charles River Editors

Themes: Renaissance • Christianity • Europe

God’s Secret Agents Queen Elizabeth’s Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot — Alice Hogge

God’s Secret Agents Queen Elizabeth’s Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot

Themes: Renaissance • Christianity • Europe

God’s Jury The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World — Cullen Murphy

God’s Jury The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World

Themes: Renaissance • Christianity • Europe

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