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Essays by distinguished historians in honour of the just-retired Regius Professor of Modern History.

Derek Beales (Author), Geoffrey Best (Author)

9780521021890, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 3 November 2005

348 pages
23 x 15.4 x 2.5 cm, 0.554 kg

This book contains essays within a common theme by a group of distinguished historians (some of them acknowledged world leaders in their fields) in honour of the just-retired Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge, whose contribution to religion, education and history has been recognised by the award of a knighthood and, more recently, by the Order of Merit. Their common interest is the same one that has marked Professor Chadwick's life and work: the centrality of religious history to the history of Europe and, through that, to world history as a whole.

List of contributors
Preface
1. Owen Chadwick and his work Geoffrey Best
2. Augustine on pagans and Christians: reflections on religious and social change Henry Chadwick
3. The diversity of religious life and acceptance of social pluralism in the twelfth century Giles Constable
4. The churches of medieval Cambridge C. N. L. Brooke
5. 'True History': Martin Luther and Thomas Müntzer Gordon Rupp
6. Europe and the reformation G. R. Elton
7. The attack on the Church of England in the Long Parliament, 1640–1642 John Morrill
8. Oliver Cromwell and the Sin of Achen Blair Worden
9. Tithe in eighteenth-century France: a focus for rural anticlericalism John McManners
10. Christians and philosophes: the case of the Austrian Englightenment Derek Beales
11. The role of religion in European counter-revolution, 1789–1815 T. C. W. Blanning
12. The role of Providence in evangelical social thought Boyd Hilton
13. Cardinal Manning and the Temporal Power E. R. Norman
14. The Poor in Christ: peasants, priests and politics in the Cosenza general strike, November 1920 Jonathan Steinberg
15. Britain, 1940 and 'Christian Civilisation' Keith Robbins
16. A bibliography of the writings of Owen Chadwick Eamon Duffy
Index.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]