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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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The Coronation of Henry IV

On October 13th, 1399, Henry Bolingbroke was crowned King Henry IV of England in Westminster Abbey.

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Poisoned Chalice

Scientist and clergyman Temple Chevallier believed that the fast pace of recent discoveries in astronomy risked substituting a new superstition for an old one.

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Sanctuary!

As late as the fifteenth century, criminals on the run could find refuge in the precincts of England’s great churches.

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The Shimabara Rebellion

Forty thousand men, women and children, the last survivors of Japans’s persecuted Christian population, took refuge without earthly hope in a seaside castle.

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The Vast Depths of Infinity

Thomas Wright offers his readers a way of thinking about the enormous distances involved in any description of the solar system.

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Written in the Skies

Though some other sciences may seem to destroy it, astronomy restores a sense of religious awe.