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The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard-the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium

The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard-the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium

A New York Times bestselling scholar's illuminating exploration of the earliest Christian narrated journeys to heaven and hell

Bernard looks at the structure of the church, the nature of royal control over it, the clergy and bishops, the intense devotion and deep-rooted practices of the laity, anti-clerical sentiment, and the prevalence of heresy.

The first complete history of Southwark, London's stubbornly independent community over the Thames

Discusses the "Book of Hours", unquestionably the most intimate and most widely used book of the later Middle Ages. This title examines surviving copies of the personal prayer books which were used for private, domestic devotions, and in which people commonly left traces of their lives.

A new appraisal of the first Tudor queen, her European connections, her ambitions and intentions, and the religious violence that stained her short reign