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A Forgotten Great Englishman
Excerpt from A Forgotten Great Englishman: Or the Life and Work of Peter Payne, the Wycliffite In sending forth this volume upon a most interesting and momentous period of the worlds history, I plead for it fair and generous criticism. I have tried to deal with the subject in no narrow sectarian spirit. Tracing the material for it has been a most interesting and even exciting occupation; and as the wild yet earnest life of the time has passed under review, with all its fierce cruelties, jealous hatreds, and hot passion, the sense of how much we in these later days owe to Wycliffe and Payne and their followers in Bohemia has deepened. They were among the first in medieval Europe to make a fir...
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Enterprise and Management
This study covers three of the areas of interest to British business historians - entrepreneurship and management, banking and finance, and enterprise in trade and industry. The essays emphasize the themes of enterprise and management as focused sharply in the evidence of business records.
Studies in Scottish Business History
This book was first published in 1967. This volume contains a number of essays looking at Scottish business history, its sources and archives. Section two explores domestic and enterprise organsation with examples of lead-mining, joint stock and he law, the Glasglow savings bank and the east coast herring fishing. Section three expands Scottish Enterprise overseas from 1707 to the nineteeth century.
The Gentleman's Magazine
The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs.
Preachers, Partisans, and Rebellious Religion
In early fifteenth-century Prague, disagreements about religion came to be shouted in the streets and taught to the laity in the vernacular, giving rise to a new kind of public engagement that would persist into the early modern era and beyond. The reforming followers of Jan Hus brought theological learning to the people through a variety of genres, including songs, poems, tractates, letters, manifestos, and sermons. At the same time, university masters provided the laity with an education that enabled them to discuss contentious issues and arrive at their own conclusions, emphasizing that they held the freedom to make up their own minds about important theological issues. This marketplace o...
