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Devil’s Advocates
The War on Heresy: Faith and Power in Medieval Europe
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Onward Muslim Soldiers
In the Shadow of the Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World
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Reason & Religion
Islamism and Islam
By Bassam Tibi
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Christopher De Bellaigue
Following the Faith
Encounters with Islam: On Religion, Politics and Modernity
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Toby Thomas
Prurient Puritan
Muckraker: The Scandalous Life and Times of W T Stead
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Peter Marshall
Reformation Blues
The Late Medieval English Church: Vitality and Vulnerability before the Break with Rome
By G W Bernard
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Michael Burleigh
Papal Fallacies
The Pius War: Responses to the Critics of Pius XII
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Rory Miller
Defensive Positions
Fortress Israel: The Inside Story of the Military Elite Who Run the Country – and Why They Can’t Make Peace
By Patrick Tyler
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Simon J V Malloch
Sub Specie Aeternitatis
And Man Created God: Kings, Cults, and Conquests at the Time of Jesus
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Tom Holland
Islam & Influence
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Robert Irwin
Shared Values
Europe and the Islamic World: A History
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Peter Marshall
The Godless Edition
The Atheist’s Bible: The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed
By Georges Minois
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Peter Heather
Charity Begins in Rome
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD
By Peter Brown
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Peter Frankopan
Cities of God
The Crusader States
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Eric Ormsby
The Imaged Word
Aisha’s Cushion: Religious Art, Perception, and Practice in Islam
By Jamal J Elias
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John Cooper
Vaux A-Mercy
God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England
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Nicholas Vincent
Up, Up and Away
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By Robert Bartlett
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Peter Marshall
Leaps of Faith
Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept
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Diarmaid Macculloch
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Mick Brown
Zen & Now
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It wasn’t until 1825 that Pepys’s diary became available for the first time. How it was eventually decrypted and published is a story of subterfuge and duplicity.
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Was he really the finer artist, asks Tanya Harrod, or is it time Gwen emerged from her brother’s shadow?
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