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ReadEminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Vol. 2 (of 3)
Montgomery, James; Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
This volume is a biographical compendium that gathers the lives of eminent Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese…
ReadWritings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint
The volume gathers Augustine’s polemical writings against the Donatist schism, a controversy that erupted in…
ReadThe Holy Roman Empire
James Bryce
The work is a scholarly treatise by James Bryce, Viscount Bryce, that sets out to explain the Holy Roman…
La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages
Jules Michelet
The work is a nineteenth‑century French historian’s sweeping study of witchcraft, demonology and superstition…
ReadThe Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites
H. Clay Trumbull
The Threshold Covenant is a scholarly treatise that investigates the earliest forms of religious ritual,…
ReadThe Life of the Rev. George Whitefield, Volume 1 (of 2)
L. Tyerman
Luke Tyerman’s two‑volume biography of George Whitefield opens with a vigorous defense of its scope and…
The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History
Martin A. S. Hume
Martin A. S. Hume’s work is a scholarly examination of the six queens who married Henry VIII, presented as a…
The Expositor's Bible: The Books of Chronicles
W. H. Bennett
The Expositor’s Bible presents a scholarly commentary on the biblical Books of Chronicles, written by the…
ReadThe Essenes: Their history and doctrines
Christian D. Ginsburg
The work is a scholarly essay by Christian D. Ginsburg that sets out to give an impartial statement of the…
The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe
Dorothy Stimson
Dorothy Stimson’s work is a scholarly survey of how the Copernican heliocentric model moved from controversy…
ReadGiordano Bruno
J. Lewis McIntyre
The work is a scholarly biography and philosophical sketch of Giordano Bruno, written by J.
ReadSketch of the Reformation in England
John J. Blunt
The book is a scholarly sketch of England’s Reformation, authored by John J.
ReadIndian Myth and Legend
Donald A. Mackenzie
Donald A. Mackenzie’s Indian Myth and Legend is a scholarly survey of Hindu mythology and its attendant…
The Canon of the Bible
Samuel Davidson
The work is a scholarly essay on the formation and history of the biblical canon, written by Samuel Davidson…
ReadCassell's History of England, Vol. 3 (of 8) From the Great Rebellion to the Fall of Marlborough.
Anonymous
ReadThe Jews in Great Britain Being a Series of Six Lectures, Delivered in the Liverpool Collegiate Institution, on the Antiquities of the Jews in England.
Moses Margoliouth
The work is a six‑part lecture series delivered in 1845‑46 at the Liverpool Collegiate Institution by the…
ReadThe Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 34 of 55, 1519-1522; 1280-1605 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
Antonio Pigafetta
The volume is a scholarly compilation that brings together Antonio Pig Pigafetta’s late‑16th‑century…
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March
Alban Butler
This volume is a reference work that gathers brief biographies of Christian saints, focusing on the fathers,…
ReadLetters of John Calvin, Volume II Compiled from the Original Manuscripts and Edited with Historical Notes
Jean Calvin
ReadHistory of the Jews, Vol. 3 (of 6)
Heinrich Graetz
A Short History of Italy (476-1900)
Henry Dwight Sedgwick
Henry Dwight Sedgwick’s A Short History of Italy is a concise, outline‑style survey that spans from the…
ReadCrimes of Preachers in the United States and Canada
M. E. Billings
The work is a polemical survey of criminal and immoral conduct among Christian ministers in the United States…
ReadThe Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 43, 1670-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
This volume continues the Dominican Order’s chronicle of its missionary activity in the Philippines, drawing…
ReadHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3
Edward Gibbon
The third volume of Edward Gibbon’s monumental work continues his sweeping survey of Rome’s final centuries,…