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Ulster Presbyterians in the Atlantic world

Ulster Presbyterians in the Atlantic world

Religion, politics and identity

Mark G. Spencer & David A. Wilson, editors

In this collection of essays American and Canadian historians explore the changing transatlantic character of the Ulster Presbyterianism in the eighteenth and n…
Enemies of empire

Enemies of empire

New perspectives on imperialism, literature and history

Eóin Flannery & Angus Mitchell, editors

Enemies of empire addresses a conspicuous gap in the current literature on colonial and postcolonial literary, theoretical and historical studies and introduces…
The seafaring saint

The seafaring saint

Sources and analogues of the twelfth-century Voyage of Saint Brendan

Clara Strijbosch

The Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis, written in Latin around AD 800, describes how the 6th-century Irish saint Brendan set sail for an island paradise on the …
Marsh's Library: a mirror on the world

Marsh's Library: a mirror on the world

Law, learning and libraries, 1650–1750

Muriel McCarthy & Ann Simmons, editors

In 1707 an act of parliament established Marsh’s Library as ‘a publick library for ever’. This volume contains the papers presented at a conference to commemora…
A short history of the Catholic church

A short history of the Catholic church

José Orlandis

The history of the Catholic Church is an essential part of world history over the past two thousand years. This book is meant for readers who are looking for a …
Genesis

Genesis

Old Testament [standard edition]

Navarre Bible

Genesis – which deals with the 'origins' of the world and mankind – is the first book of the Bible, the first book of the Pentateuch, the Law of Moses, the Hebr…
The Pentateuch

The Pentateuch

Old Testament [standard edition]

Navarre Bible

Genesis • Exodus • Leviticus • Numbers • Deuteronomy

This volume contains the first five books of the Bible in the Revised Standard Version and the New Vulgate…
Wisdom Books

Wisdom Books

Old Testament [standard edition]

Navarre Bible

Job • Proverbs • Ecclesiastes • Wisdom • Sirach

Full biblical text in the Revised Standard Version and the New Vulgate together with extensive commentaries.

W…
Edith Somerville

Edith Somerville

A biography

Gifford Lewis

Edith Somerville (1858–1949) was one half of the writing duo Somerville and Ross, best known for The Real Charlotte (1894) and Some experiences of an Irish R.M.…
Occasions for writing

Occasions for writing

Essays on medieval and renaissance literature, politics and society

John Scattergood

In 1974, in an introduction to Ben Jonson’s poetry, Thom Gunn wrote: ‘all poetry is occasional: whether the occasion is an external event like a birthday or a d…