Christian / Church History

A compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England

The Council of Nicaea was one of the most important events in the history of Christianity. This volume includes fifteen original studies that explore a different aspect of the Council and its legacy and will be of interest to scholars and students of theology, religious studies, and history.

Ancient Christians are closely connected to today's world through a living memory and a common textual heritage - the Bible - even for non-Christians. However, as this engrossing new account shows, much about the early Christians is foreign to us and far removed from what passes for Christianity today.

This Handbook brings together the latest scholarship on the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Christian Church between 400 and 1500 AD.

First comprehensive account of the building history of St. Paul's Cathedral as revealed by archaeological excavation and recording, documentary research and engineering works.

Laudianism was both a way of being Christian and a political ideology. This definitive account of this intensely controversial movement explores how it helped cause the English civil war, but over the long term provided one of the visions of the national church, one that has been in contention to define 'Anglicanism' ever since.