PERSECUTION AND LIBERTY: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF GEORGE LINCOLN BURR
Freeport, NY, Books For Libraries Press, 1968. Item #27395
Original Publisher’s Cloth. 8vo. Xviii, 482 pages. Facsim. Port. 22 cm. Burr (1857 – 1938) was a U. S. Historian, diplomat, author, and educator. Series: Essay index reprint series. CONTENTS: The theory of persecution, ” by E. W. Nelson; “Hebrew history and historical method, ” by A. T. Olmstead; “Nugae palaeographicae, ” by E. A. Lowe; “A lost diploma of Otto III, ” by E. V. Moffett; “Social aspects of medieval heresy, ” by A. P. Evans; “The consent of the English lower clergy to taxation during the reign of Henry III, ” by W. E. Lunt; “The attitude of Erasmus toward toleration, ” by W. K. Ferguson; “Sebastian Castellio and the toleration controversy of the sixteenth century, ” by R. H. Bainton; “Lelio Sozzini's confession of faith, ” by E. M. Hulme; “Vincenzo Maggi, a Protestant politician, ” by F. C. Church; “John de Feckenham and the Marian reaction, ” by A. H. Sweet; “The Colloquium heptoplomeres of Jean Bodin, ” by G. H. Sabine; “James I of England and the Little Beagle letters, ” by F. G. Marcham; “A seventeenth century humanitarian; Hermann Löber, ” by L. O. Gibbons; “The first Earl of Shaftesbury, ” by L. F. Brown; “Further considerations on the origins and nature of the enlightened despotism, ” by G. M. Dutcher; “The young Barère, ” by L. Gershoy; “Early Revolutionary newspapers, ” by G. G. Andrews; “The French Revolution; conspiracy or circumstance? ” By L. R. Gottschalk; “Agitation against the slave trade in Rhode Island, 1784-1790, ” by E. Donnan. SUBJECT(S) : Persecution. Liberty. Freedom of religion. Reprint of the 1931 edition. Bibliographical footnotes. Very good condition. (FEST1-63).
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