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Anglo-Saxon litanies of the saints
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ISSN: 01440241 ISBN: 1870252012 9781870252411 9781870252010 Year: 1991 Volume: 106 Publisher: Woodbridge (Suffolk) : Boydell and Brewer,


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Religion and rural society : South Lindsey, 1825-1875
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ISBN: 0198224265 9780198224266 Year: 1976 Publisher: Oxford: Clarendon press,


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Religion and the decline of magic: studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth and seventeenth century England
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ISBN: 0297002201 9780297002208 Year: 1980 Publisher: London Weidenfeld and Nicolson


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Voyage philosophique d'Angleterre : fait en 1783 et 1784 ...
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Year: 1786 Publisher: Londres [s.n.]

The cult of St. Katherine of Alexandria in late medieval England
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ISBN: 0851157734 9780851157733 Year: 2000 Publisher: Woodbridge Boydell Press

A companion to Middle English hagiography
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ISBN: 1843840723 9781843840725 9781782045458 9781843842460 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge Brewer

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The saints were the superheroes and the celebrities of medieval England, bridging the gap between heaven and earth, the living and the dead. A vast body of literature evolved during the middle ages to ensure that everyone, from kings to peasants, knew the stories of the lives, deaths and afterlives of the saints. However, despite its popularity and ubiquity, the genre of the Saint's Life has until recently been little studied. This collection introduces the canon of Middle English hagiography; places it in the context of the cults of saints; analyses key themes within hagiographic narrative, including gender, power, violence and history; and, finally, shows how hagiographic themes survived the Reformation. Overall it offers both information for those coming to the genre for the first time, and points forward to new trends in research.

Miracles in Enlightenment England
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ISBN: 0300112726 9780300112726 Year: 2006 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press

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The Enlightenment, considered an age of rationalism, is not normally associated with miracles. In this intriguing book, however, Jane Shaw presents accounts of inscrutable miracles that occurred to ordinary worshippers in early modern England. She considers the reactions of intellectuals, scientists, and physicians to these miraculous events and through them explores the relations between popular and elite culture of the time. Miraculous events in England between the 1650s and the 1750s were experienced mainly not by Catholics, but by Protestants. The book looks at the political and social context of these events as well as interpretations and explanations of them by scientists, the Court and the Church, as well as by preachers, pamphleteers, friends, and neighbors. Shaw links the lived religion of the time to intellectual history and amends the hitherto received view. The religious practice of ordinary people was as crucial to the development of Enlightenment thought as the philosophical and theological writings of the elite.

Sabbath and sectarianism in seventeenth-century England
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ISSN: 09208607 ISBN: 9004087540 9004246592 9789004087545 9789004246591 Year: 1988 Volume: 10 Publisher: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill,

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This book is a study of the practical application of a religious idea: the belief in the continuing validity of the Old Testament, especially the Ten Commandments, which ordained the observance of the Sabbath on the seventh day, Saturday. The author traces the growth and development of the most radical of English Sabbath observers, those who revered the Jewish Sabbath in a Christian context. But this is not only a pre-history of the Seventh-Day Adventists. It is also the story of the remarkable persistence of a revolutionary religious belief powerful and convincing enough to survive the Restoration and continue into modern times. The Saturday-Sabbath gradually became institutionalized in a nonconformist sect in which the ideological foundation was sufficient to unite men who on political grounds should have been the most bitter of enemies, including Fifth Monarchists, millenarians, neutrals, and Royalists alike. That those men and their followers could amicably join forces after the Restoration is testimony to the power of religious ideas which might overshadow the political affiliations of the civil war.

Religion and the English people 1500 - 1640 : new voices new perspectives.
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ISBN: 0943549620 0943549639 9780943549637 9780943549620 Year: 1998 Volume: 45 Publisher: Kirksville Thomas Jefferson university press

The stripping of the altars : traditional religion in England, c.1400-c.1580
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ISBN: 9780300108286 0300108281 Year: 2005 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press

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