Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation

6 best books like Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation (Peter Marshall): The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries, Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries

Author	Carlo Ginzburg
ISBN	0801843863

Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centred on the benandanti. These men and women regarded themselves as professional anti-witches, who (in dream-like states) apparently fought ritual battles against witches and wizards, to...

Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution

Author	Lisa Jardine
ISBN	0385720017

In this fascinating look at the European scientific advances of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, historian Lisa Jardine demonstrates that the pursuit of knowledge occurs not in isolation, but rather in the lively interplay and frequently cutthroat competition between creative...

The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln

Author	Sean Wilentz
ISBN	0393058204

In this magisterial work, Sean Wilentz traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening shots of the Civil War. One of our finest writers of history, Wilentz brings to life the era after the American Revolution, when the idea of democracy remained contentious, and Jeffersonians...

The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815

Author	Timothy C.W. Blanning
ISBN	0670063207

The Pursuit of Glory brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in European history from the battered, introvert continent after the Thirty Years War to the dynamic one that experienced the French Revolution and the wars of Napoleon. Tim Blanning depicts the lives of ordinary people and the...

Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution

Author	Woody Holton
ISBN	0809080613

Average Americans Were the True Framers of the Constitution
Woody Holton upends what we think we know of the Constitution’s origins by telling the history of the average Americans who challenged the framers of the Constitution and forced on them the revisions that produced the document we...

Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

Author	Tom Holland
ISBN	0316732451

Tom Holland provides a thoroughly readable history, showing a sharp grasp of the history of the Dark Ages, as well as a passion for his subject. He reviews the history of Europe roughly from 900 CE to 1000.
Always in the background is the alarm about the possible end of the world, Armageddon and the...