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Close Readers: Humanism and Sodomy in Early Modern England by Alan Stewart 9780691604244
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.25Humanism, in both its rhetoric and practice, attempted to transform the relationships between men that constituted the fabric of early modern society. So argues Alan Stewart in this ground-breaking... -
Pulpit in Parliament: Puritanism During the English Civil Wars, 1640-1648 by John Frederick Wilson 9780691648378
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £99.42Before the outbreak of hostilities between Charles I and the Long Parliament, the King had authorized a regular monthly fast for the realm which members of parliament later adopted as a program of... -
Redeeming Eve: Women Writers of the English Renaissance by Elaine V. Beilin 9780691608037
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.43An introduction to women writers of the English Renaissance which takes up 44 works, many as thumbnail sketches; shows how women's writing was hampered by the assumption that poets were male, by... -
Pulpit in Parliament: Puritanism During the English Civil Wars, 1640-1648 by John Frederick Wilson 9780691621500
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.25Before the outbreak of hostilities between Charles I and the Long Parliament, the King had authorized a regular monthly fast for the realm which members of parliament later adopted as a program of... -
The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Spirituality and Social Work by Beth R. Crisp
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.53This international volume provides a comprehensive account of contemporary research, new perspectives and cutting-edge issues surrounding religion and spirituality in social work. The introduction... -
Making Women Martyrs in Tudor England by Megan L. Hickerson 9781403938336
Booksplease Price: £46.28Making Women Martyrs in Tudor England examines the portrayal of Protestant women martyrs in Tudor martyrology, focusing mainly on John Foxe's Book of Martyrs . Foxe's women martyrs often defy not... -
Making Women Martyrs in Tudor England by Megan L. Hickerson 9781349519408
Booksplease Price: £46.74Making Women Martyrs in Tudor England examines the portrayal of Protestant women martyrs in Tudor martyrology, focusing mainly on John Foxe's Book of Martyrs . Foxe's women martyrs often defy not... -
Puritan Millennialism: Literature and Theology, 1550-1682 (Revised Edition) by Crawford Gribben 9781842273722
Booksplease Price: £30.97Puritanism was an intensely eschatological movement. From the beginnings of the movement, Puritan writers developed eschatological interests in distinct contexts and often for conflicting purposes... -
The English Soul: The Faith of a Nation by Peter Ackroyd 9781789148459
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.50The English Soul portrays the spirit and nature of English Christianity as it has developed over the last 1,400 years. As the predominant faith of the people, Christianity has been the reflection,... -
The English Soul: Faith of a Nation Peter Ackroyd 9781836390947
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781836390947Author Peter AckroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Reaktion BooksPublisher... -
Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion: And Other Various Occurrences in the Church of England, during Queen Elizabeth's Happy Reign by John Strype 9781108018029
Booksplease Price: £55.44The ecclesiastical historian John Strype (1643-1737) published the third volume of his monumental Elizabethan religious history Annals of the Reformation in 1728. For over two and a half centuries it... -
Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture by Mr John N. King 9780521863810
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £106.88This book was first published in 2006. Second only to the Bible and Book of Common Prayer, John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, known as the Book of Martyrs, was the most influential book published in... -
The Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature by Piero Boitani
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99The theme of the `body and soul' relationship in medieval texts and modern reworkings. The theme of the body-and-soul relationship in medieval texts and in modern reworkings of medieval matter is... -
Reading Memory in Early Modern Literature by Andrew Hiscock 9780521761215
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99'He who remembers or recollects, thinks' declared Francis Bacon, drawing attention to the absolute centrality of the question of memory in early modern Britain's cultural life. The vigorous debate... -
Discourses of Martyrdom in English Literature, 1563-1694 by John R. Knott 9780521131582
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.21Representations of persecution and martyrdom in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England helped shape a lasting ideal of Protestant heroism. This book shows how Protestant writers tried to recreate... -
Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture by Mr John N. King 9781107403628
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £45.71This book was first published in 2006. Second only to the Bible and Book of Common Prayer, John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, known as the Book of Martyrs, was the most influential book published in... -
Engineers of the Imagination: Welfare State Handbook by Tony Coult 9780413528001
Booksplease Price: £27.89"Welfare State International are brilliant at making an audience of strangers into a community" (Guardian) Since its foundation by John Fox in 1968, Welfare State International has developed a unique... -
Coverdale and his Bibles by J.F. Mozley 9780227172384
Booksplease Price: £39.29How the Bible came to be translated into English makes a fascinating chapter in our national history. Second only to William Tyndale in that story stands Miles Coverdale who, in 1535, issued the... -
Elizabethans by Patrick Collinson 9781852854003
Booksplease Price: £44.79The age of Elizabeth I continues to exercise a fascination unmatched by other periods of English history. Yet while the leading figures may seem familiar, many Elizabethan figures, including the... -
Secretaries of God - Women Prophets in Late Medieval and Early Modern England by Diane Watt 9780859916141
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22Diane Watt sets aside the conventional hiatus between the medieval and early modern periods in her study of women's prophecy, following the female experience from medieval sainthood to radical... -
The Debate on the Crusades, 1099-2010 by Christopher Tyerman 9780719073205
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £75.20David Hume, the eighteenth century philosopher, famously declared that 'the crusades engrossed the attention of Europe and have ever since engaged the curiosity of man kind'. This is the first book... -
Prophecy and Sibylline Imagery in the Renaissance: Shakespeare's Sibyls Jessica L. Malay 9781138868878
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34This book restores the rich tradition of the Sibyls to the position of prominence they once held in the culture and society of the English Renaissance. The sibyls - figures from classical antiquity -... -
The Tudor Queens of England by David Loades 9780826434388
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £22.00From Elizabeth of York - wife of Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch - through to Elizabeth I, her grand-daughter and the last in the line, this book explores some of the most colorful and dramatic... -
Eating and its Disorders John R. E. Fox (Manchester University) 9780470683545
RRP: £94.95Booksplease Price: £84.07Eating and its Disorders features contributions by international experts in the field of eating disorders which represent an overview of the most current knowledge relating to the assessment,... -
Edge of England: Landfall in Lincolnshire by Derek Turner 9781805260325
Booksplease Price: £12.81Lincolnshire is England's second-largest county—and one of the least well-known. Yet its understated chronicles, unfashionable towns and undervalued countryside conceal fascinating stories, and... -
Eating and its Disorders by John R. E. Fox 9780470683538
RRP: £42.95Booksplease Price: £39.96Eating and its Disorders features contributions by international experts in the field of eating disorders which represent an overview of the most current knowledge relating to the assessment,... -
Sacrament an Alter/The Sacrament of the Altar: A critical edition with translation by D. H. Frost 9781804130308
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.89'Sacrament an Alter' (The Sacrament of the Altar) is a Cornish patristic catena selected and translated from Foxe's Book of Martyrs, which is attached to the translation of Bishop Bonner's Homilies... -
The Debate on the Crusades, 1099-2010 by Christopher Tyerman 9780719073212
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.47David Hume, the eighteenth century philosopher, famously declared that 'the crusades engrossed the attention of Europe and have ever since engaged the curiosity of man kind'. This is the first book... -
The 92nd Infantry Division and the Italian Campaign in World War II by Daniel K. Gibran 9780786410095
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59This work focuses on the all black 92nd Infantry Division in the Italian Campaign in World War II and the poor combat performance of the division in Italy. An introduction provides an overall view... -
Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi 9781035063758
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Funny, deep, shocking, wry, heartwarming and spine-chilling' The GuardianMr Fox, by award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, is a beautiful and immersive exploration of the labyrinthine world of... -
Pioneering Studies in Cognitive Neuroscience by Richard Roche 9780335233564
Booksplease Price: £34.00This edited collection presents seven recent studies in contemporary cognitive neuroscience which have come to be viewed as classic experiments. The contributing authors are renowned in their field... -
Reassessing Tudor Humanism by J. Woolfson 9781349429561
Booksplease Price: £90.56This collection of essays by an international team of experts, explores the wideranging impact of Renaissance humanism on sixteenth century England. Investigating areas as diverse as art, education,... -
The Tudors: History of a Dynasty by David Loades 9781441136909
Booksplease Price: £47.74This title offers a new and comprehensive overview of the complete Tudor dynasty taking in the most recent scholarship. David Loades provides a masterful overview of this formative period of British... -
Sean Lester: The Guardian of a Small Flickering Light by Marit Fosse 9780761866107
Booksplease Price: £37.81It was an incredible destiny for a man who repeatedly announced that he was "without ambition." Although he had left school aged fourteen, had no experience of foreign affairs and spoke no languages... -
From Cranmer to Sancroft by Patrick Collinson 9781852855048
RRP: £64.99Booksplease Price: £62.83Patrick Collinson is the leading historian of English religion in the years after the Reformation. The topics covered by this collection of essays ranges from Thomas Cranmer, who was burnt at the... -
Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction since 1878 by 9780813130101
Booksplease Price: £67.18Much criticism has been directed at negative stereotypes of Appalachia perpetuated by movies, television shows, and news media. Books, on the other hand, often draw enthusiastic praise for their... -
Modelling High-level Cognitive Processes Richard P. Cooper With Contributi 9780415650236
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £53.24This book is a practical guide to building computational models of high-level cognitive processes and systems. High-level processes are those central cognitive processes involved in thinking,... -
The Beginnings of English Protestantism by Peter Marshall 9780521003247
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £35.47Studies of the English Reformation have tended either to emphasise the vitality of traditional religious culture, or to shift the focus to the reigns of Elizabeth and the early Stuarts. As a result... -
A Fast Track to Online Learning: Rapid Development and Deployment of Technology Enabled Curriculum by Darryl Vidal 9781475861792
Booksplease Price: £33.84Many books will be written about the latent effects COVID-19 and the response the pandemic will have on our community. Some of the impacts were immediate and obvious, like the forced move to distance... -
The Beginnings of English Protestantism by Peter Marshall 9780521802741
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63Studies of the English Reformation have tended either to emphasise the vitality of traditional religious culture, or to shift the focus to the reigns of Elizabeth and the early Stuarts. As a result...