The Matter of Anne Hutchinson

by Christopher Kone

2025 · Covenant Books, Inc.

Harvard University claims Anne Hutchinson, a Puritan wife and mother, as a founding cause of their institution. Anne's peers considered her a Jezebel. In modern times, she is acclaimed as a pioneer of women's rights. In 1637, she was banished from Massachusetts. In 1638, she was excommunicated from the church. Today, a statue of Anne stands on the Massachusetts State House lawn. What is certain about Anne is that she was the eye of the Antinomian Controversy that swept over the nascent Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. Though Anne is often viewed by historians through the colony's religious structure, the controversy threatening the colony swirled around the Protestant Reformation's doctrine of salvation. Author Christopher Kone untangles the matter of Anne Hutchinson by employing various processes of history that consider theology and government. As theology lives within the real world, social, political, and legal aspects are also applied to the matter of Anne. The story told is a part of the vibrant history of America and its revolutions. It is a story of the past that reflects on our time.

British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections

by Christopher Wright, Catherine May Gordon

2006 · Yale University Press

This book sets a new standard as a work of reference. It covers British and Irish art in public collections from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth, and it encompasses nearly 9,000 painters and 90,000 paintings in more than 1,700 separate collections. The book includes as well pictures that are now lost, some as a consequence of the Second World War and others because of de-accessioning, mostly from 1950 to about 1975 when Victorian art was out of fashion. By listing many tens of thousands of previously unpublished works, including around 13,000 which do not yet have any form of attribution, this book becomes a unique and indispensable work of reference, one that will transform the study of British and Irish painting.

John Channon and Brass-inlaid Furniture, 1730-1760

by Christopher Gilbert, Tessa Murdoch, Victoria and Albert Museum

1993 · Yale University Press

A reinvestigation of brass inlaid furniture made between 1730-1760, usually attributed to the Channon workshop. Research indicates that there were five London cabinet makers specializing in this furniture. This is the catalogue for an exhibition in Leeds on 22nd September 1993 and later in London.

Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution - Revisited

by Christopher Hill

1997 · Clarendon Press

This is a revised edition of Christopher Hill's classic and ground-breaking examination of the motivations behind the English Revolution and Civil War, first published in 1965. In addition to the text of the original, Dr Hill provides thirteen new chapters which take account of other publications since the first edition, bringing his work up-to-date in a stimulating and enjoyable way. This book poses the problem of how, after centuries of rule by King, lords, and bishops, when the thinking of all was dominated by the established church, English men and women found the courage to revolt against Charles I, abolish bishops, and execute the king in the name of his people. The far-reaching effects and the novelty of what was achieved should not be underestimated - the first legalized regicide, rather than an assassination; the formal establishment of some degree of religious toleration; Parliament taking effective control of finance and foreign policy on behalf of gentry and merchants, thus guaranteeing the finance necessary to make England the world's leading naval power; abolition of the Church's prerogative courts (confirming gentry control at a local level); and the abolition of feudal tenures, which made possible first the agricultural and then the industrial revolution. Christopher Hill examines the intellectual forces which helped to prepare minds for a revolution that was much more than the religious wars and revolts which had gone before, and which became the precedent for the great revolutionary upheavals of the future.

An Atlas of Illinois Fishes

by Brian A. Metzke, Brooks M. Burr, Leon C. Hinz Jr., Lawrence M. Page, Christopher A. Taylor

2022 · University of Illinois Press

Lake Michigan, winding creeks, sprawling swamps, and one of the world’s great rivers--Illinois’s variety of aquatic habitats makes the Prairie State home to a diverse array of fishes. The first book of its kind in over forty years, An Atlas of Illinois Fishes is a combination of nature guide and natural history. It provides readers with an authoritative resource based on the extensive biological data collected by scientists since the mid-1850s. Each of the entries on Illinois’s 217 current and extirpated fish species offers one or more color photographs; maps depicting distributions at three time periods; descriptions of identifying features; notes on habitat preference; and comments on distribution. In addition, the authors provide a pictorial key for identifying Illinois fishes. Scientifically up-to-date and illustrated with over 240 color photos, An Atlas of Illinois Fishes is a benchmark in the study of Illinois’s ever-changing fish communities and the habitats that support them.