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Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England

By: Peter Elmer

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Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England

By: Peter Elmer

Witchcraft, Witch-hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England constitutes a wide-ranging and original overview of the place of witchcraft and witch-hunting in the broader culture of early modern England. Based on a mass of new evidence extracted from a range of archives, both local and national, it seeks to relate the rise and decline of belief in witchcraft, alongside the legal prosecution of witches, to the wider political culture of the period. Building on the seminal work of scholars such as Stuart Clark, Ian Bostridge, and Jonathan Barry, Peter Elmer demonstrates how learned discussion of witchcraft, as well as the trials of those suspected of the crime, were shaped by religious and political imperatives in the period from the passage of the witchcraft statute of 1563 to the repeal of the various laws on witchcraft. In the process, Elmer sheds new light upon various issues relating to the role of witchcraft in English society, including the problematic relationship between puritanism and witchcraft as well as the process of decline.

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Oxford University Press

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0191027529

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Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England

By: Peter Marshall

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Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England

By: Peter Marshall

This is the first comprehensive study of one of the most important aspects of the Reformation in England: its impact on the status of the dead. Protestant reformers insisted vehemently that between heaven and hell there was no 'middle place' of purgatory where the souls of the departed could be assisted by the prayers of those still living on earth. This was no remote theological proposition, but a revolutionary doctrine affecting the lives of all sixteenth-century English people, and the ways in which their Church and society were organized. This book illuminates the (sometimes ambivalent) attitudes towards the dead to be discerned in pre-Reformation religious culture, and traces (up to about 1630) the uncertain progress of the 'reformation of the dead' attempted by Protestant authorities, as they sought both to stamp out traditional rituals and to provide the replacements acceptable in an increasingly fragmented religious world. It also provides detailed surveys of Protestant perceptions of the afterlife, of the cultural meanings of the appearance of ghosts, and of the patterns of commemoration and memory which became characteristic of post-Reformation England. Together these topics constitute an important case-study in the nature and tempo of the English Reformation as an agent of social and cultural transformation. The book speaks directly to the central concerns of current Reformation scholarship, addressing questions posed by 'revisionist' historians about the vibrancy and resilience of traditional religious culture, and by 'post-revisionists' about the penetration of reformed ideas. Dr Marshall demonstrates not only that the dead can be regarded as a significant 'marker' of religious and cultural change, but that a persistent concern with their status did a great deal to fashion the distinctive appearance of the English Reformation as a whole, and to create its peculiarities and contradictory impulses.

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362

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OUP Oxford

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0191542911

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9780191542916

Predestination, Policy and Polemic

Conflict and Consensus in the English Church from the Reformation to the Civil War

By: Peter White

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Predestination, Policy and Polemic

Conflict and Consensus in the English Church from the Reformation to the Civil War

By: Peter White

This is a major study of the theology of grace in the English Church between the Reformation and the Civil War. On the basis of a wide reading of both English and continental writings, the author challenges the prevailing view that there was essentially a 'Calvinist' consensus in the Elizabethan and Jacobean Church, and stresses instead an indigenous latitudinarianism of doctrine against which a concerted campaign was conducted in the last decade of the sixteenth century in the controversies which led to the Lambeth Articles. Mr White reviews the impact Arminian ideas had in England, firstly through a detailed exposition of the theology of Arminius, and subsequently by means of a review of the links between the English and Dutch churches as the quarrel between the Remonstrants and Contra-Remonstrants reached its climax in the Synod of Dort. Other chapters discuss the place of Hooker in English theology, the impact of Richard Montagu, the ideas of Thomas Jackson, the writings of Neile and Laud on predestination, and the regulation of doctrine in the period of Personal Rule. At all stages the theological debate is related to its political - and often polemical - context, not least in a carefully documented reassessment of the role of the court both in the last years of James' reign and in the early years of the rule of Charles I.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521892503

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9780521892506

Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry

By: Robert Murray,Darryl Granner,Peter Mayes,Victor Rodwell

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Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry

By: Robert Murray,Darryl Granner,Peter Mayes,Victor Rodwell

Extensively revised and updated, this authoritative biochemistry text is known worldwide for its comprehensive and up-to-date coverage. Extensively illustrated and user-friendly, the text offers examples pf how knowledge of biochemistry is essential for understanding the molecular basis of health and disease. The 26th edition also features expanded content on results of the Human Genome Project. Perfect as both text and USMLE review.

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705

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071500928

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9780071500920

Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry

By: Robert K. Murray,Darryl K. Granner,Peter A. Mayes,Victor W. Rodwell

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By: Robert K. Murray,Darryl K. Granner,Peter A. Mayes,Victor W. Rodwell

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0071389016

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Book's by Peter J. Sansom

Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England

Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England

Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England

Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England

Predestination, Policy and Polemic

Predestination, Policy and Polemic

Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry

Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry

Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry

Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry

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