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  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Jesuits

    Edited by Thomas Worcester, SJ ...
    Founded in 1540 by Ignatius of Loyola, the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) has been praised as a saintly god-send and condemned as the work of Satan. With some 600 entries written by 110 authors - those inside and outside the order - this encyclopedia opens up the complexities of Jesuit history and explores the current life and work of this Catholic religious order and its global vocation. ... Read more

    $234.99 USD

  • Piety and Plague

    From Byzantium to the Baroque

    Edited by Franco Mormando, Thomas Worcester ...
    Series series Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies
    Plague was one of the enduring facts of everyday life on the European continent, from earliest antiquity through the first decades of the eighteenth century. It represents one of the most important influences on the development of Europe’s society and culture. In order to understand the changing circumstances of the political, economic, ecclesiastical, artistic, and social history of that ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits

    Edited by Thomas Worcester ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Religion
    Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) obtained papal approval in 1540 for a new international religious order called the Society of Jesus. Until the mid-1700s the 'Jesuits' were active in many parts of Europe and far beyond. Gaining both friends and enemies in response to their work as teachers, scholars, writers, preachers, missionaries and spiritual directors, the Jesuits were formally suppressed by ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

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    The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital

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  • Catherine Howard

    The Queen Whose Adulteries Made a Fool of Henry VIII

    by Lacey Baldwin Smith ...
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  • Foxe's Book of Martyrs

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    Past, Present and Future

    by Michael B. A. Oldstone, M.D. ...
    The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity, focusing mostly on the most famous viruses. Oldstone begins with smallpox, polio, and measles. Nearly 300 million people were killed by ... Read more

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  • Ecclesiastical History of the English People

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    Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and history. It goes on to tell of the kings and bishops, monks and nuns who helped to develop Anglo-Saxon government and religion during the crucial formative years of the English people. Leo Sherley-Price's translation brings us an accurate and readable version, in modern English, of a unique historical ... Read more

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