Middle Ages
The era often titled The Middle Ages has been widely regarded as a time of darkness, a period of history in which the church descended into a rather lowly condition. This is probably often overstated, and the spirituality of the true people of God who lived through those times perhaps underestimated. For Christ has always preserved a people for Himself in every age. Below you’ll find a few books we have about those times. You will want to consult the G. A. Henty historical fictions also about the Middle Ages.
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2000 Years of Christ’s Power: 5-volume set (Nick Needham)
$104.99All five volumes of Nick Needham’s 2,000 Years of Christ’s Power as a set.
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The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great (Benjamin R. Merkle)
$15.99The unlikely king who saved England.
Down swept the Vikings from the frigid North. Across the English coastlands and countryside they raided, torched, murdered, and destroyed all in their path. Farmers, monks, and soldiers all fell bloody under the Viking sword, hammer, and axe.
Then, when the hour was most desperate, came an unlikely hero. King Alfred rallied the battered and bedraggled kingdoms of Britain and after decades of plotting, praying, and persisting, finally triumphed over the invaders.
Alfred’s victory reverberates to this day: He sparked a literary renaissance, restructured Britain’s roadways, revised the legal codes, and revived Christian learning and worship. It was Alfred’s accomplishments that laid the groundwork for Britain’s later glories and triumphs in literature, liturgy, and liberty.
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King Alfred’s English: A History of the Language we Speak and why we Should be Glad we do
$13.50Men and women during the times of the Reformation gave their lives so that we could read the Bible in our native tongue! But how did this “native tongue” of ours, that we call English, come to be? This book is a fun and enlightening view of our language’s history, through the lens of the major language “invasions” which affected it, and how they changed the shape and form of the English we write and speak.
More than a history of the English language, this is a highly entertaining and educational celebration of the delights of English. Woven into this history are the stories of several key English authors, whose prose and poetry have influenced the development of English. Learn how words morph and mutate, how grammar shifts and simplifies, and with some zany word histories thrown in, get a fresh look at English altogether!
Also you’ll learn why the English Bible had an unparalleled impact on the development of our language.
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Slaying Leviathan: Limited Government and Resistance in the Christian Tradition (Glenn Sunshine)
$14.50Christians first expressed these political truths under Caesars, kings, popes, and emperors. We need them in the age of presidents.
Leviathan is rising again, and the first weapon we must recover is the longstanding Christian tradition of resisting governmental overreach. Our bloated bureaucratic state would have been unrecognizable to the Founders, and our acquiescence to its encroachments on liberty would have infuriated them. But here is the point: our Leviathan would not have surprised them. They were well acquainted with the tendency of governments to turn tyrannical: “Eternal vigilance is the price we pay for liberty.”
In Slaying Leviathan , historian Glenn S. Sunshine surveys some of the stories and key elements of Christian political thought from Augustine to the Declaration of Independence. Specifically, the book introduces theories of limited government that were synthesized into a coherent political philosophy by John Locke. Locke, of course, influenced the American founders and was, like us, fighting against the spirit of Leviathan in his day. But his is only one of the many stories in this book.
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2000 Years of Christ’s Power, Vol 2: The Middle Ages (Nick Needham)
$22.50The Middle Ages were dubbed the ‘Dark Ages’ almost before they had begun to draw to a close. Ever since then, they have continued to be seen as a time of hardship and oppression, full of popes and crusades.
In the second volume of 2,000 Years of Christ’s Power, another side of the Middle Ages shines through though: The continual workings of Christ as He built His kingdom through figures such as Thomas a Kempis and John Wycliffe, who lived and struggled during these centuries. This was far from a period of stagnation; rather it was the fire from which the Reformation was kindled.
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