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Throughout the sixteenth century the Bible became the intellectual bread and butter of northern Europe. Translations into the vernacular, spread by the new medium of printing, created a Bible culture that dominated everyday lives. In England Henry VIII complained to Parliament that it was “disputed, rhymed, sung, and jangled in every ale house.”1
All true work is religion.
(Thomas Carlyle, 1795–1881)
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Everett E. Hagen, On the Theory of Social Change: How Economic Growth Begins, London: Tavistock Publications, 1964, pp. 295–309.
George Unwin, Industrial Organization in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1904, pp. 196–227.
David L. Edwards, Christian England, vol. II, Collins, 1983, p. 348.
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Donkin, R. (2010). The New Religion of Work. In: The History of Work. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230282179_4
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