History - Religious

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2

François Guizot

This volume is a scholarly survey of French history that begins by turning its gaze toward the Crusades,…

Vida de Jesús

Ernest Renan

Esta obra, titulada Vida de Jesús y escrita por Ernest Renan, se presenta como una investigación histórica…

The House of the Lord: A Study of Holy Sanctuaries Ancient and Modern

James E. Talmage

The work is a scholarly survey of temple worship that situates the modern Latter‑day Saint movement within…

Mediæval London, Volume 2: Ecclesiastical

Walter Besant

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 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 meticulously compiled collection of ecclesiastical reports, official correspondence, and…

History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems

Allan Menzies

Allan Menzies’s History of Religion is a scholarly overview that seeks to give students a broad, comparative…

The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See

W. D. Sweeting

The work is a scholarly survey of Peterborough Cathedral, its architecture and the evolution of the episcopal…

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 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, part of a fifty‑five‑volume series chronicling the Philippines from first European contact to…

Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America

Jane M. Bancroft

Jane M. Bancroft’s work is a scholarly survey of the deaconess movement, tracing its origins from the early…

Mediæval Heresy & the Inquisition

Arthur Stanley Turberville

Arthur Stanley Turberville’s Mediæval Heresy & the Inquisition is a concise scholarly essay that aims to give…

The Catholic World, Vol. 26, October, 1877, to March, 1878

Various

History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 1

James MacCaffrey

James MacCaffrey’s work is a scholarly survey of the Catholic Church’s trajectory from the Renaissance…

The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 2: Acadia, 1612-1614

The volume gathers a series of reports, letters, and narrative excerpts that document the early Jesuit…

Buddhism, in Its Connexion with Brahmanism and Hinduism, and in Its Contrast with Christianity

Sir Monier Monier-Williams

The work is a scholarly treatise by Sir Monier‑Williams that sets out to map Buddhism from its earliest Pāli…

Henry the Sixth: a reprint of John Blacman's memoir, with translation and notes

John Blakman

This volume is a scholarly re‑print of John Blakman’s early‑sixteenth‑century tract on the “Personality of…

The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints

The volume presents a scholarly collection of four medieval hagiographies, two in Latin, one in Irish, and a…

The Life of John Taylor Third President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

B. H. Roberts

The book is a biographical history of John Taylor, the third president of the Church of Jesus Christ of…

A History of the Inquisition of Spain; Vol. 2

Henry Charles Lea

This volume is a scholarly study of the Spanish Inquisition, written by Henry Charles Lea.

The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination, (Vol. 1 of 3)

Calef, Robert; Mather, Cotton

The work is a scholarly rebuttal to the early New‑England witch‑hunt literature, presented as a new edition…

The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Isaiah, Volume 2 (of 2)

George Adam Smith

Fairs, past and present: A chapter in the history of commerce

Cornelius Walford

The work is a scholarly survey of fairs, tracing their evolution from ancient religious gatherings to the…

History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 6 (of 12)

G. Maspero

The volume is a scholarly survey of ancient Near Eastern history, focusing on Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria,…

English Monastic Life

Francis Aidan Gasquet

The work is a scholarly survey of English monasticism before the Reformation, written by Francis Aidan…

The History of the Negro Church

Carter Godwin Woodson

The work is a scholarly survey of the African‑American church from its earliest colonial roots to the early…