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Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources is an introduction to
the rich treasury of source material available to students of early
modern history. During this period, political development, economic
and social change, rising literacy levels, and the success of the
printing press, ensured that the State, the Church and the people
generated texts and objects on an unprecedented scale. This book
introduces students to the sources that survived to become
indispensable primary material studied by historians. After a
wide-ranging introductory essay, part I of the book, 'Sources',
takes the reader through seven key categories of primary material,
including governmental, ecclesiastical and legal records, diaries
and literary works, print, and visual and material sources. Each
chapter addresses how different types of material were produced,
whilst also pointing readers towards the most important and
accessible physical and digital source collections. Part II,
'Histories', takes a thematic approach. Each chapter in this
section explores the sources that are used to address major early
modern themes, including political and popular cultures, the
economy, science, religion, gender, warfare, and global
exploration. This collection of essays by leading historians in
their respective fields showcases how practitioners research the
early modern period, and is an invaluable resource for any student
embarking on their studies of the early modern period.
In recent years, the rituals and beliefs associated with the end of
life and the commemoration of the dead have increasingly been
identified as of critical importance in understanding the social
and cultural impact of the Reformation. The associated processes of
dying, death and burial inevitably generated heightened emotion and
a strong concern for religious propriety: the ways in which
funerary customs were accepted, rejected, modified and contested
can therefore grant us a powerful insight into the religious and
social mindset of individuals, communities, Churches and even
nation states in the post-reformation period. This collection
provides an historiographical overview of recent work on dying,
death and burial in Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe and
draws together ten essays from historians, literary scholars,
musicologists and others working at the cutting edge of research in
this area. As well as an interdisciplinary perspective, it also
offers a broad geographical and confessional context, ranging
across Catholic and Protestant Europe, from Scotland, England and
the Holy Roman Empire to France, Spain and Ireland. The essays
update and augment the body of literature on dying, death and
disposal with recent case studies, pointing to future directions in
the field. The volume is organised so that its contents move
dynamically across the rites of passage, from dying to death,
burial and the afterlife. The importance of spiritual care and
preparation of the dying is one theme that emerges from this work,
extending our knowledge of Catholic ars moriendi into Protestant
Britain. Mourning and commemoration; the fate of the soul and its
post-mortem management; the political uses of the dead and their
resting places, emerge as further prominent themes in this new
research. Providing contrasts and comparisons across different
European regions and across Catholic and Protestant regions, the
collection contributes to and extends the existing literature on
this important historiographical theme.
Notions of which behaviours comprised sin, and what actions might
lead to salvation, sat at the heart of Christian belief and
practice in early modern England, but both of these vitally
important concepts were fundamentally reconfigured by the
reformation. Remarkably little work has been undertaken exploring
the ways in which these essential ideas were transformed by the
religious changes of the sixteenth-century. In the field of
reformation studies, revisionist scholarship has underlined the
vitality of late-medieval English Christianity and the degree to
which people remained committed to the practices of the Catholic
Church up to the eve of the reformation, including those dealing
with the mortification of sin and the promise of salvation. Such
popular commitment to late-medieval lay piety has in turn raised
questions about how the reformation itself was able to take root.
Whilst post-revisionist scholars have explored a wide range of
religious beliefs and practices - such as death, providence,
angels, and music - there has been a surprising lack of engagement
with the two central religious preoccupations of the vast majority
of people. To address this omission, this collection focusses upon
the history and theology of sin and salvation in reformation and
post-reformation England. Exploring their complex social and
cultural constructions, it underlines how sin and salvation were
not only great religious constants, but also constantly evolving in
order to survive in the rapidly transforming religious landscape of
the reformation. Drawing upon a range of disciplinary perspectives
- historical, theological, literary, and material/art-historical -
to both reveal and explain the complexity of the concepts of sin
and salvation, the volume further illuminates a subject central to
the nature and success of the Reformation itself. Divided into four
sections, Part I explores reformers' attempts to define and
re-define the theological concepts of sin and salvation, while Part
II looks at some of the ways in which sin and salvation were
contested: through confessional conflict, polemic, poetry and
martyrology. Part III focuses on the practical attempts of English
divines to reform sin with respect to key religious practices,
while Part IV explores the significance of sin and salvation in the
lived experience of both clergy and laity. Evenly balancing
contributions by established academics in the field with
cutting-edge contributions from junior researchers, this collection
breaks new ground, in what one historian of the period has referred
to as the 'social history of theology'.
'Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England' breaks
new ground in the religious history of Elizabethan England, through
a closely focused study of the relationship between the practice of
religious music and the complex process of Protestant identity
formation. Hearing was of vital importance in the early modern
period, and music was one of the most prominent, powerful and
emotive elements of religious worship. But in large part,
traditional historical narratives of the English Reformation have
been distinctly tone deaf. Recent scholarship has begun to take
increasing notice of some elements of Reformed musical practice,
such as the congregational singing of psalms in meter. This book
marks a significant advance in that area, combining an
understanding of theory as expressed in contemporary religious and
musical discourse, with a detailed study of the practice of church
music in key sites of religious worship. Divided into three
sections - 'Discourses', 'Sites', and 'Identities' - the book
begins with an exploration of the classical and religious
discourses which underpinned sixteenth-century understandings of
music, and its use in religious worship. It then moves on to an
investigation of the actual practice of church music in parish and
cathedral churches, before shifting its attention to the people of
Elizabethan England, and the ways in which music both served and
shaped the difficult process of Protestantisation. Through an
exploration of these issues, and by reintegrating music back into
the Elizabethan church, we gain an expanded and enriched
understanding of the complex evolution of religious identities, and
of what it actually meant to be Protestant in post-Reformation
England.
The Reformation of the Decalogue tells two important but previously
untold stories: of how the English Reformation transformed the
meaning of the Ten Commandments, and of the ways in which the Ten
Commandments helped to shape the English Reformation itself.
Adopting a thematic structure, it contributes new insights to the
history of the English Reformation, covering topics such as
monarchy and law, sin and salvation, and Puritanism and popular
religion. It includes, for the first time, a comprehensive analysis
of surviving Elizabethan and Early Stuart 'commandment boards' in
parish churches, and presents a series of ten case studies on the
Commandments themselves, exploring their shifting meanings and
significance in the hands of Protestant reformers. Willis combines
history, theology, art history and musicology, alongside literary
and cultural studies, to explore this surprisingly neglected but
significant topic in a work that refines our understanding of
British history from the 1480s to 1625.
Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources is an introduction to
the rich treasury of source material available to students of early
modern history. During this period, political development, economic
and social change, rising literacy levels, and the success of the
printing press, ensured that the State, the Church and the people
generated texts and objects on an unprecedented scale. This book
introduces students to the sources that survived to become
indispensable primary material studied by historians. After a
wide-ranging introductory essay, part I of the book, 'Sources',
takes the reader through seven key categories of primary material,
including governmental, ecclesiastical and legal records, diaries
and literary works, print, and visual and material sources. Each
chapter addresses how different types of material were produced,
whilst also pointing readers towards the most important and
accessible physical and digital source collections. Part II,
'Histories', takes a thematic approach. Each chapter in this
section explores the sources that are used to address major early
modern themes, including political and popular cultures, the
economy, science, religion, gender, warfare, and global
exploration. This collection of essays by leading historians in
their respective fields showcases how practitioners research the
early modern period, and is an invaluable resource for any student
embarking on their studies of the early modern period.
This book provides a comprehensive study of the planning and
building of railways in London's Docklands, reflecting on the past
180 years of railway development. It describes the creation of the
enclosed working docks at the start of the 19th Century and the
introduction of railways in the middle of the century. By the
1970's the decline of the working docks led to a plethora of plans
to regenerate the area, but with little agreement on what should be
done. The setting up of the London Docklands Development
Corporation by the former Secretary of State for the Environment
Lord Heseltine was a significant landmark, expediting the Canary
Wharf development. The book describes in detail the modern railway
projects, created to support the subsequent growing employment and
population of the area, including the Docklands Light Railway with
its multiple extensions, the Jubilee Line extension and
Crossrail/Elizabeth Line. The book will appeal to a wide audience.
To railway enthusiasts who wish to learn more about the why and the
how such projects are approved and built and to transport and
planning professionals who wish to understand more about the ups
and downs of the relationship between transport and development and
the decision making processes. within changing political, economic
and employment scenarios. The end result has provided Docklands
with a comprehensive hierarchy of quality transport services, to
match anyway in the world.
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PUSH (Paperback)
Jonathan Willis Willis
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R523
Discovery Miles 5 230
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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PUSH is a book written to help people become resilient and deal
with adversity. Athletes often face many hardships and
disappointments on the competition field and this book will inspire
them in the midst of the struggle.
The Reformation of the Decalogue tells two important but previously
untold stories: of how the English Reformation transformed the
meaning of the Ten Commandments, and of the ways in which the Ten
Commandments helped to shape the English Reformation itself.
Adopting a thematic structure, it contributes new insights to the
history of the English Reformation, covering topics such as
monarchy and law, sin and salvation, and Puritanism and popular
religion. It includes, for the first time, a comprehensive analysis
of surviving Elizabethan and Early Stuart 'commandment boards' in
parish churches, and presents a series of ten case studies on the
Commandments themselves, exploring their shifting meanings and
significance in the hands of Protestant reformers. Willis combines
history, theology, art history and musicology, alongside literary
and cultural studies, to explore this surprisingly neglected but
significant topic in a work that refines our understanding of
British history from the 1480s to 1625.
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