This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in the history of European religion. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce.

A study focusing on the historical methodology of Roland Bainton - the Titus Street Professor of Church History at Yale University from 1939 to 1962. The volume includes a bibliography of all Bainton's works.

Thus Roland Bainton explains the struggle within the Christian Church to achieve religious liberty by telling, in popular biographical style, nine stories of sincere people--both persecutors and persecuted--who took part in the struggle.

A thought-provoking look at the Angevin aristocracy's literary practices and historical record Coming upon the text of a document such as a charter or a letter inserted into the fabric of a medieval chronicle and quoted in full or at length ...

Bainton presents the many strands that made up the Reformation in a single, brilliantly coherent account.

A critical portrait of Christianity follows its beginnings two thousand years ago to today, documenting such areas as the life of Christ, the rise of cathedrals and kings, the political climate of Rome, and the flight of the Puritans to the ...