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The Penguin History of the Church
Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The history of the Western church in the Middle Ages is the history of the most elaborate and thoroughly integrated system of religious thought and practice the world has ever known. It is also the history of European society during eight hundred years of sometimes rapid change. This authoritative...
The History of the Christian Church: From the Birth of Christ to the 18th Century
The Waldenses, The Albigenses, The Vaudois
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
The History of the Christian Church is a two volume set. Volume one traces the history of the Christian Church from the time of the apostles to the twelfth century. Jones includes helpful chronological tables of the kings, princes as well as the Popes, and emperors. Volume two starts at the time of...
The Talents of Jacopo da Varagine
A Genoese Mind in Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Jacopo da Varagine (c. 1228–1298) is remembered today primarily for his immensely popular work The Golden Legend, a massive collection of stories about the saints. Compiled over the years 1260–67, The Golden Legend quickly eclipsed earlier collections of saints’ lives. One indication of its...
by Nathan Bangs
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
This is volume three of four from Nathan Bangs' history of the Methodist Church. Bangs is considered by many to be one of the foremost historians in modern times, and his portrayal of church history is among the best ever written.
From the author's preface:
The following history has...
NATURAL HISTORY OF MAN
The Unity of Human Species, Migrations of Men and Development of Human Characters
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
This book presents the natural history of man, with illustrations. - What is man? - The Antiquity of Man. - The Migrations of Men. - The Development of Physical and Intellectual Characters of the Human Races. "Each of my fellow laborers in science select the subject which habitually occupies...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
This is the first anthology in more than half a century to offer fresh insight into the history of Jews and Judaism in America. Beginning with six chronological survey essays, the collection builds with twelve topical essays focusing on a variety of important themes in the American Jewish and Judaic...
by James Henry Breasted
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
James Henry Breasted (August 27, 1865 December 2, 1935) was an American archaeologist and historian who focused his career on Egypt and did research into the rise of civilization in the Near East. In 1905, as a member of the University of Chicagos faculty, Breasted was promoted to professor in the...
Kings of the Jews
Exploring the Origins of the Jewish Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Israel frequently features in the news today, often for the wrong reasons. Violence in the Holy Land is an all-too-common occurrence. To understand why this part of the Middle East is such a flashpoint, knowing its long history is essential, and Norman Gelb's 'Kings of the Jews' illuminates the evolution...
Unraveling the Family History of Jesus
A History of the Extended Family of Jesus from 100 Bc Through Ad 100 and the Influence They Had on Him, on the Formation of Christianity, and on the History of Judea
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Unraveling the Family History of Jesus approaches Jesus as an historical figure and sheds light on the details of the settings, the circumstances, and the context in which His family lived. Steven Donald Norrisdrawing upon a wide array of sourcesbrings to this work an historians sensibility of the...
by Craig Borlase
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
‘My knowledge of the history of Christianity is shocking. Once we get out of the New Testament I find myself having considerable difficulty. Did the church really stay as silent as it appears that it did during the Second World War? Was there actually quite so much fuss made over the ordination...
by Nathan Bangs
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
This is the final book in the four volume series from Nathan Bangs' history of the Methodist Church. Bangs is considered by many to be one of the foremost historians in modern times, and his portrayal of church history is among the best ever written.
From the author's preface:
The...
by Harry Anthony Brunk
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
This reprint of History of Mennonites in Virginia is authorized by the children of Dr. Harry A. Brunk. This work represents the most extensive history of Mennonites in Virginia from 1727 to 1900 available today. This history takes us from the earliest days before Mennonites moved to the Shenandoah...
by Martin Hume
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
"I lighted upon great files and heaps of papers and writings of all sorts.... In searching and turning over whereof, whilst I laboured till I sweat again, covered all over with dust, to gather fit matter together ... that noble Lord died, and my industry began to flag and wax cold in the business."
Thus...
A New History of Ireland Volume VII
Ireland, 1921-84
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and archaeological evidence, through the Middle Ages, down...