Proposes a method for doing theology which does not divorce it from the practical applications of science. Starting with the sciences that examine happiness - particularly biology, genetics, and psychology - this book seeks to understand the spiritual nature of humans and, through it, the nature of God.
Explores the importance of public image in the Tudor and Stuart monarchies.
Criticism and Compliment examines the poems, plays and masques of the three figures who succeeded Ben Jonson as authors of court entertainments in the England of Charles I. The courtly literature of Caroline England has been dismissed by critics and characterised by historians as propaganda for Charles I's absolutism penned by sycophantic hirelings.
A scholarly study of Sir Robert Cotton as antiquary and politician. It examines his antiquarian writings, the building of his library, his relations with European scholars, his place at court, in parliament, and in the literary society of Renaissance London.
Aims to present an entirely fresh picture of Charles I and his annexation of power. Sharpe analyzes the personality, principles, and policies of a monarch who, after summoning more parliaments in his first year of rule than his predecessors had for a century, determined to govern without them.
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