History - Religious

Woman's Life in Colonial Days

Carl Holliday

Carl Holliday’s Woman’s Life in Colonial Days is a scholarly survey that seeks to reshape popular ideas about…

The Age of the Reformation

Preserved Smith

The Age of the Reformation is a scholarly survey written by Preserved Smith, a Harvard‑trained historian, and…

History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Volume 1

J. H. Merle d'Aubigné

Merle d’Aubigné’s History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century is a sweeping scholarly work that…

Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster

Potts, Thomas, active 1612-1618

Thomas Potts’s Discovery of Witches is a seventeenth‑century pamphlet that treats the witch‑trials of…

History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Volume 5 The Reformation in England

J. H. Merle d'Aubigné

The work is the fifth volume of Merle d’Aubigné’s sweeping “History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth…

Luther, vol. 3 of 6

Hartmann Grisar

Hartmann Grisar’s third volume in his six‑part biography of Martin Luther is a scholarly study that treats…

History of the Protestants of France, from the commencement of the Reformation to the present time

G. de Félice

This volume is a concise yet sweeping survey of the French Protestant experience from the birth of the…

The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, Consort of Henri IV, and Regent of the Kingdom under Louis XIII — Volume 2

Miss Pardoe

The work is a detailed historical narrative by Julia Pardoe that chronicles the final years of Marie de…

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 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 is a meticulously compiled record of the Philippine colony between 1588 and 1591, drawn from…

History of Dogma, Volume 2

Adolf von Harnack

History of Dogma, Volume 2 is a scholarly treatise that maps the emergence of the Catholic Church’s doctrinal…

Christianity and Islam in Spain, A.D. 756-1031

Charles Reginald Haines

The work is a scholarly survey of the religious and political landscape of early medieval Spain,…

The censorship of the Church of Rome and its influence upon the production and distribution of literature, volume 1 (of 2)

George Haven Putnam

This work is a scholarly survey of Roman Catholic censorship from its earliest recorded council prohibition…

The Oxford Methodists: Memoirs of the Rev. Messrs. Clayton, Ingham, Gambold, Hervey, and Broughton, with biographical notices of others

L. Tyerman

The work is a nineteenth‑century biographical collection by L.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4

American Anti-Slavery Society

The Anti‑Slavery Examiner is a nineteenth‑century periodical compiled by the American Anti‑Slavery Society,…

Pistis Sophia

The work is a scholarly edition of the Coptic manuscript known as the Pistis Sophia, a collection of early…

History of Christian names

Charlotte M. Yonge

Charlotte M. Yonge’s History of Christian Names is a scholarly reference work that sets out to catalogue and…

Arabia: The Cradle of Islam Studies in the Geography, People and Politics of the Peninsula, with an Account of Islam and Mission-Work.

Samuel Marinus Zwemer

Samuel M. Zwemer’s work is a missionary‑oriented survey of the Arabian Peninsula, its peoples, geography, and…

The Early Christians in Rome

H. D. M. Spence-Jones

The work is a scholarly survey of the rise of Christianity in the Roman capital from its apostolic…

Peter the Hermit: A Tale of Enthusiasm

Daniel A. Goodsell

The work is a scholarly historical narrative that sets out to trace the religious impulses behind medieval…

The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 1: Acadia, 1610-1613

The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 1: Acadia, 1610‑1613 is a scholarly compilation that gathers…

The Life of Cesare Borgia

Rafael Sabatini

The work is a historical study of Cesare Borgia, the flamboyant son of Pope Alexander VI, set against the…

A Short History of Monks and Monasteries

Alfred Wesley Wishart

Alfred Wesley Wishart’s A Short History of Monks and Monasteries is a scholarly survey that traces the…

Ritual and belief: Studies in the history of religion

Edwin Sidney Hartland

The work is a scholarly survey of the intellectual currents that have shaped the study of religion, magic and…

The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ

Kersey Graves

The work is a polemical study of comparative religion that sets out to demonstrate that the Christian…