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cost of first printing
and democracy
and the English constitution
and execution of Charles I
General Committee of Revision
general distribution
Hebrew idioms
importance to English-speaking peoples
inspired by James I
key role in abolition of slavery
the King’s fourteen rules
known as the Authorised Version or the King James Version
later versions
as literature
Miles Smyth’s preface
misprints
overper cent of the words are Old English
Oxford Edition
power of
prepared for publication
printed in English in 1611
translations
King’s College, London
Kingsley, Charles
Kingswood
Kipling, Rudyard
Korea
Kyrle Society
Labour Party (British)
Langland, William
Lansbury, George
Last Judgement
Last Temptation (film)
Latin
Latin Vulgate
Laud, Archbishop
Lawrence, D.H.
Lecky, W.E.H.
Lefèvre d’Etaples, Jacques
Leopold, Prince
‘Let there be light’
Levellers
Lewis, C.S.
Lewis, Jane
Leyland, John
Lincoln, Abraham
Lincoln Cathedral
literacy
literature
America and the twentieth century
the Bible itself as literature
English literature in Britain
Little Sodbury, Cotswolds
Lively, Edward
Locke, John
Lockyer, Nicholas
Loftus, Elizabeth
Lollards
London City Mission
London Missionary Society
Lord’s Prayer
Lot
Lowth, Robert
Luke, St
Luther, Martin
McAfee, Cleland Boyd
Macaulay, Lord
McCarthy, Cormac
McCarthy, Senator
McCrea, Dr William
MacCulloch, Diarmaid
McGrath, Alister
Mackay, Alexander
Magna Carta
Malden, William
Mansbridge, Ronald
Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice
Maoris
Marian martyrs
Mark, St
Marsden, Samuel
Marshall, Stephen
Marston Moor, Battle of (1644)
Marx, Karl
Marxism
Mary, Queen
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Virgin
Mary II, Queen
Mary Magdalene
Massachusetts
match factories
Mather, Cotton
Matthew, St
Maurice, F.D.
Maxwell, James Clerk
Mayflower
Mayhew, Henry
Melville, Herman
Mencken, H.L.
Methodism, Methodists
Methodist World Missions
Mid-Western Bible Belt, United States
Middle Passage
Middleton, Richard
Miller, Arthur
Milner, Isaac
Milton, John
missions, missionaries
Mohammed
Mongolia
More, Hannah
More, Sir Thomas
Mormons (Latter Day Saints)
Morris, William
Morrison, Toni
Moses
M’Tesa, King, of Uganda
Münster, Sebastian
My Brother’s Keeper
mystery plays
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleonic Wars (1799 – 1815)
Naseby, Battle of (1645)
National Society for the Education of the Poor
National Trust
Native Americans
see also American Indians
Nebuchadnezzar, King
Nelson, Admiral Lord Horatio
Neoplatonism
New England
New England Primer
New Enlightenment
New Guinea
New Lanark cotton mills
New Model Army
New Testament
Douay-Rheims (1582)
Luther translates into German
Theodore Bega’s translation
two companies prepare the KJB
Tyndale’s translation (1525)
New York School of Philanthropy
New Zealand
Newton, John
Newton, Sir Isaac
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nigeria
Nigerian Methodist Church
Night School, Little Ormond Yard, London
Nightingale, Florence
Nimrod, King
Nine Lessons and Carols, Service of
Noah
Noah’s Flood
Noll, Mark A.
nonconformists
Normans
Norris, Pamela
North, Lord
Northampton, Massachusetts
Northern Ireland
Norton, David
Nott, Henry
Obama, Barack
Octavia Hill Association, Philadelphia
Old English
Old Testament
Sebastian Münster’s Latin translation 44
three companies prepare the KJB
Tyndale’s partial translation
Olivétan, Pierre Robert
Onanism
original sin
Owen, Robert
Owen, Wilfred
Oxford University
Pagninus, Sanctes
Paine, Thomas
Papara, Tahiti
Parliamentary Army
Parliamentary Grand Committee
Parliamentary Party
Patrick, St
Paul, St
Peasants’ Revolt (1381)
Penn, William
Pennsylvania Gazette
Pentateuch
Pentecostal movement
Peter the Apostle, St
Philadelphia, Academy of
Phillips, Henry
‘phossy jaw’
Pilgrim Fathers
Pitt, William, the Younger
Plato
Plymouth, Devon
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Plymouth Rock
Polkinghorne, John
polygamy
Pomare II, King
Poor Law authorities
Pope, Alexander
Prayer Book
Presbyterian Church
Presbyterianism
Presley, Elvis
Price, Dr Richard
Prickett, Stephen
Priestley, Joseph
printing press
Privy Council
Proclamation Society for the Reformation of Manners
prostitution
Protectorate (1653—9)
Protestant Church
Protestant Reformation
Protestantism
public schools
Pullman, Philip
Puritans
Putney Debates (1647)
Quakers
racism
Raikes, Robert
Rainsborough, Thomas
Raleigh, Walter
Ranyard, Ellen
rape
Rauschenbusch, Walter
Ray, John
Reagan, Ronald
Rees, Martin
Reformation
Reina, Casiodoro de
Reina-Valera Bible (1569)
Renaissance
Research Scientists’ Christian Fellowship
Restoration
Resurrection
Reynolds, John
Rhode Island
Robeson, Paul
Robinson, Mary
Roman Catholic Church
Roman Empire
Romantic movement
Rome
Rosenberg, Isaac
Roundheads
Rowse, A.L.
Royal Commission on Housing
Royal Commission on the Poor Law
Royal Navy
Royal Society
Royalists
Ruskin, John
Ruth
St Andrews University
St John’s Gospel: Bede translates into English
St Mary the Virgin church, Putney
St Mary’s church, Wigton, Cumbria
St Paul’s Cathedral, London
Saintsbury, Professor
Salem witch trials
Salisbury, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of
Salome
Salvation Army
Samson
Sarah, wife of Abraham
Saul, King
Saul of Tarsus
Schaff, Philip
Schaffer, Simon
Schalberg, Jane
Second Cambridge Company
Second Coming
Second Inaugural Address (Lincoln)
Second Oxford Company
Second Westminster Company
Second World War
Sedgewick, William
segregation
Selden, John
Sentamu, John, Archbishop of York
Separatists
Sermon on the Mount
Sewall, Judge Samuel
sex, the Bible and
Shaftesbury, Lord
Shakespeare, William
Sharp, Granville
Shaw, George Bernard
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Shoman-Dube, Musa
Signet Office
Simms, Marion
Simpson, David
slavery
Slessor, Mary
Slum Sisters
Smith, Charlotte
Smith, Sydney
Smyth, Canon Charles
Smyth, Miles
Social Gospel
Social Gospel Movement
Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG)
Society for the Suppression of Vice
Society of Christian Socialists
Solomon
Somersett, James
Somersett’s Case (1772)
Song of Solomon
South Africa
Southcott, Joanna
Spanish Armada
Speke, John Hanning
Spenser, Edmund
Spenser, George
Spinoza, Benedict de
spirituals
Spurgeon, Charles
Squanto (Tisquantum)
Standish, John
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Staunton, Edward
Staverdale, Lord
Steinbeck, John
Sterelong, Kim
Stiles, Reverend
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Sunday schools
Swift, Jonathan
Synod of Virginia (1867)
Syriac
Tahiti
Tamar
Taoism
Taylor, Alan
Taylor, J. Hudson
Temperance Unions
Ten Commandments
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Thirteenth Amendment (1865)
Thirty Years War (1618 – 48)
Thomas, Edward
Tice, Karen Whitney
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Tolpuddle Martyrs
Torah
Townes, Charles Hard
trade unions
Treatise of the Three Imposters
Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
Tremellius-Junius Bible (1579)
Trevelyan, G.M.
Trollope, Anthony
Tunstall, Cuthbert, Bishop of London
Twain, Mark
Tyndale, William
Uganda
United African Methodists
United States Christian Commission
Updike, John
Uriah the Hittite
Valera, Cypriano de
Van Dyke, Dr
Vatican
Victoria, Queen
Vilvoorde Castle, Belgium
Virginia
Vitton, Francis
Voltaire
Wallace, General Lew
Walsh, Sir John
Washington, George
Watson, Joshua
Webster, Noah
Wesley, Charles
Wesley, John
Wesleyan Conference (1790)
Westminster Abbey, London
Whichcote, Benjamin
White, Ronald C., Jnr.
Whitefield, George
Whitman, Walt
Wigton, Cumbria
Wilberforce, William
Wilberforce family
Wilde, Oscar
William III, King
William of Occam
William the Conqueror
Williams, Dakin
Williams, Dolores S.
Williams, Roger
Williams, Tennessee
Winstanley, Gerrard
Winthrop, John
witch hunts
Wittenberg, Germany
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Wolsey, Cardinal
women
and charity
liberation of
witch hunts
women’s clubs
Women’s University Settlement movement
Wordsworth, William
Working Men’s Associations
Working Men’s College, London
Wren, Sir Christopher
Wycliffe, John
Yale University
York Mystery Plays
Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA)
Zurich Bible
Copyright © 2011 by Melvyn Bragg. All rights reserved under
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bragg, Melvyn, 1939 –
The book of books: the radical impact of the King James Bible,
1611 – 2011 / Melvyn Bragg.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
eISBN : 978-1-582-43844-3
1. Bible. English. Authorized—Influence. 2. Bible. English.
Authorized—History. I. Title.
BS186.B693 2011
220.5’20309—dc22
2011012432
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