Table of Contents

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.

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