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  • The Printing and the Printers of The Book of Common Prayer, 1549–1561

    Bibliographers have been notoriously 'hesitant to deal with liturgies', and this volume bridges an important gap with its authoritative examination of how the Book of Common Prayer came into being. The first edition of 1549, the first Grafton edition of 1552 and the first quarto edition of 1559 are now correctly identified, while Peter W. M. Blayney shows that the first two editions of 1559 were ... Leer más

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  • The Stationers' Company and the Printers of London, 1501–1557

    This major, revisionist reference work explains for the first time how the Stationers' Company acquired both a charter and a nationwide monopoly of printing. In the most detailed and comprehensive investigation of the London book trade in any period, Peter Blayney systematically documents the story from 1501, when printing first established permanent roots inside the City boundaries, until the ... Leer más

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  • The Voices of Morebath

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    In the fifty years between 1530 and 1580, England moved from being one of the most lavishly Catholic countries in Europe to being a Protestant nation, a land of whitewashed churches and antipapal preaching. What was the impact of this religious change in the countryside? And how did country people feel about the revolutionary upheavals that transformed their mental and material worlds under Henry ... Leer más

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  • The King James Bible

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  • The Stripping of the Altars

    Traditional Religion in England, 1400?1580, Second Edition

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    This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion in fifteenth-century England. Eamon Duffy shows that late medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a strong and vigorous tradition, and that the Reformation represented a violent rupture from a popular and theologically respectable religious system. For this edition, Duffy ... Leer más

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  • The Gilded Page

    The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts

    A breathtaking journey into the hidden history of medieval manuscripts, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the ornate Psalter of Henry VIII“A delight—immersive, conversational, and intensely visual, full of gorgeous illustrations and shimmering description.” –Helen Castor, author of She-WolvesMedieval manuscripts can tell us much about power and art, knowledge and beauty. Many have survived because ... Leer más

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  • Majestie

    The King Behind the King James Bible

    de David Teems ...
    The story behind the creation of the King James Bible and the king who made it happen: "Engrossing and entertaining . . . a delightful read in every way." — Publishers WeeklyOrphaned, bullied, lonely, and unloved as a boy, in time the young King of Scots overcame his troubled beginnings to ascend the English throne at the height of England's Golden Age. In an effort to pacify rising tensions in ... Leer más

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  • Henry VIII

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  • Ben Jonson

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  • Medieval Texts in Context

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