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  • William Blake and the Cultures of Radical Christianity

    by Robert Rix ...
    This study traces the links between William Blake's ideas and radical Christian cultures in late eighteenth-century England. Drawing on a significant number of historical sources, Robert W. Rix examines how Blake and his contemporaries re-appropriated the sources they read within new cultural and political frameworks. By unravelling their strategies, the book opens up a new perspective on what has ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • 'A Political Dictionary Explaining the True Meaning of Words' by Charles Pigott

    A Facsimile of the 1795 Edition

    Edited by Robert Rix ...
    Considering the fact that Charles Pigott's satirical A Political Dictionary (1795) is regularly quoted and referred to in analyses of late eighteenth-century radical culture, it is surprising that until now it has remained unavailable to readers outside of a few specialised research libraries. Until his death on the 24th of June 1794, Pigott was one of England's most prolific satirists in the ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination

    Ethnicity, Legend, and Literature

    by Robert Rix ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    This bookexamines the sustained interest in legends of the pagan and peripheral North, tracing and analyzing the use of an ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval texts from all over Europe, with a focus on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. The pagan North was an imaginative region, which attracted a number of conflicting interpretations. To ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

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  • Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution

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  • God in the Dock

    by C. S. Lewis ...
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    by Geoffrey Robertson ...
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  • The English Civil War At First Hand

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