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What was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story Tested by Original Evidence
John Gerard
John Gerard’s work is a scholarly reassessment of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot, presented as a single‑volume study…
Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers."
Bradlaugh, Charles; Collins, Anthony, active 19th century; Watts, John
The work is a biographical sketch of celebrated freethinkers, assembled from the 19th‑century English volume…
ReadThe Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 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.
The volume is a dense compilation of contemporary reports, letters, and chronicles that document the…
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
F. Bente
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church is a scholarly guide that…
A Treatise on Relics
Jean Calvin
The work is a scholarly rebuttal to the veneration of relics and images, presented as a modern English…
ReadThe Moors in Spain
Stanley Lane-Poole
Stanley Lane‑Poole’s The Moors in Spain is a scholarly survey of the eight‑century Muslim presence on the…
The Formation of Christendom, Volume II
T. W. Allies
The work is a scholarly continuation of Thomas William Allies’ ambitious survey of Christianity’s rise,…
ReadHistory of the Moorish Empire in Europe, Vol. 3 (of 3)
S. P. Scott
History of the Moorish Empire in Europe, Vol. 3, by Samuel Parsons Scott, is a scholarly survey of the Muslim…
ReadThe History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII.
Juan Antonio Llorente
The work is a condensed translation of Juan Antonio Llorente’s massive, documentary‑rich history of the…
ReadCeltic Scotland: A history of ancient Alban. Volume 2 (of 3), Church and culture
W. F. Skene
William Forbes Skene’s second volume of Celtic Scotland is a scholarly survey of the early Celtic Church and…
ReadHurrell Froude: Memoranda and Comments
Louise Imogen Guiney
The work is a scholarly compilation that gathers and rearranges material about the short‑lived…
ReadThe Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 1
George Thomas Stokes
The Expositor’s Bible presents a scholarly commentary on the first portion of the Acts of the Apostles,…
ReadHistory of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry); Smith, Joseph, Jr.
ReadThe Story of Chartres
Cecil Headlam
ReadChurch History, Volume 2 (of 3)
J. H. Kurtz
This work is a comprehensive reference on the development of Western Christianity from the thirteenth through…
ReadThe Mystical Element of Religion, as studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and her friends, Volume 1 (of 2)
Hügel, Friedrich, Freiherr von
The work is a scholarly meditation that intertwines biography, philosophy, and historical criticism to…
ReadMemoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Complete
Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France
The work is a first‑person chronicle by Marguerite de Valois, sister of Charles IX and Henri III and wife of…
ReadThe Life of Mohammad, the Prophet of Allah
Dinet, Etienne; Ben Ibrahim, Sliman
The work is a scholarly‑historical study of the Prophet Muhammad, authored by Etienne Dinet and Sliman Ben…
ReadThe Borgias Celebrated Crimes
Alexandre Dumas
The work is a historical crime narrative that plunges the reader into the turbulent world of…
ReadThe History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
David Hume
David Hume’s The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.
ReadThe age of the crusades
James M. Ludlow
James M. Ludlow’s The Age of the Crusades is a scholarly survey that begins with a detailed,…
ReadLuther, vol. 1 of 6
Hartmann Grisar
Hartmann Grisar’s first volume of a six‑part series offers a scholarly portrait of Martin Luther, tracing the…
ReadThe Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 52, 1841-1898 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
The volume is a scholarly compilation that gathers a range of primary documents covering the Philippines from…
ReadThe massacre of St. Bartholomew: Preceded by a history of the religious wars in the reign of Charles IX
Henry White
The work is a scholarly history that traces the turbulent religious conflicts in France from the early reign…