History - Religious

The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789 And the Causes Which Led to That Event

Alexis de Tocqueville

This work is a scholarly study by Alexis de Tocqueville that examines the social and political conditions of…

The Friars in the Philippines

Ambrose Coleman

The book is a nonfiction compilation by Ambrose Coleman that gathers a series of magazine articles on the…

The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time

David Masson

David Masson’s fifth volume in his seven‑part series on John Milton is a meticulously documented chronicle…

History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 2

Joseph Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Smith, Jr.

The English Church in the Eighteenth Century

Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John); Overton, John Henry

The work is a collaborative scholarly survey of the Church of England in the eighteenth century, presented as…

An Account of the Life and Writings of S. Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons and Martyr Intended to Illustrate the Doctrine, Discipline, Practices, and History of the Church, and the Tenets and Practices of the Gnostic Heretics During the Second Century

James Beaven

James Beaven’s work is a scholarly companion to the writings of Saint Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, produced in…

Buried Cities and Bible Countries

George St. Clair

The City of Auckland, New Zealand, 1840-1920

John Barr

The work is a pioneering attempt by John Barr to assemble a continuous narrative of Auckland’s growth from…

The History of Ancient America, Anterior to the Time of Columbus Proving the Identity of the Aborigines with the Tyrians and Israelites; and the Introduction of Christianity into the Western Hemisphere By The Apostle St. Thomas

George Jones

The work is a nineteenth‑century scholarly treatise that sets out to rewrite the origins of the peoples of…

Israel in Europe

G. F. Abbott

The work is a scholarly survey of Jewish history in Europe, written by G. F.

History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 9 (of 12)

G. Maspero

The volume is a scholarly survey of ancient Near Eastern civilizations, written by the French Egyptologist…

Biblical Geography and History

Charles Foster Kent

The work is a scholarly manual that treats the land of the Bible as the essential framework for understanding…

The Necessity of Atheism

David Marshall Brooks

The work is a polemical essay that sets out to argue that atheism is not merely a personal preference but an…

The History of the Assassins, Derived from Oriental Sources

Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph, Freiherr von

The work is a scholarly translation of Joseph von Hammer‑Purgstall’s “History of the Assassins,” presented to…

Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning

Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter’s work is a scholarly survey of how religious ideas have emerged and transformed, beginning…

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 17 of 55 1609-1616 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 record of the Philippines between 1609 and 1616, drawn from official…

The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870

Various

The Catholic World, Volume 10 (October 1869 – March 1870) is a nineteenth‑century Catholic periodical that…

The Cathedrals of Southern France

M. F. Mansfield

The Turkish Empire, Its Growth and Decay

G. Shaw-Lefevre (George Shaw-Lefevre) Eversley

The work is a concise, scholarly survey of the Ottoman Empire from its modest beginnings in the…

The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648

Samuel Rawson Gardiner

Samuel Rawson Gardiner’s work is a scholarly survey of the Thirty Years’ War, presented as part of the…

玉壺淸話

active 11th century Wenying

The God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in Religion

Eliza Burt Gamble

Eliza Burt Gamble’s work is a scholarly treatise that examines the intertwining of sexuality and theology.

Fifty Years in the Church of Rome

Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy

This work is an autobiographical polemic by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy, a former Roman‑Catholic…

Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era

J. E. Esslemont

Esslemont’s Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era is a systematic introduction to the Bahá’í Faith written by a devoted…