The Reformation WorldAndrew Pettegree This beautifully illustrated book is the most ambitious one-volume survey of the Reformation yet. A timely and much-needed account, it looks at every aspect of the Reformation world and considers new historical research which has led to the expansion of the subject both thematically and geographically. The strength of The Reformation World is its breadth and originality, with material drawn from many different countries, including archival material only recently made available to scholars in central Europe. Topics included are: * the Church before the Reformation |
Contents
The changing face of Reformation history | 1 |
The preReformation church | 9 |
Conciliarism in late medieval Europe | 31 |
Humanism | 51 |
Luther and the Reformation in Germany | 73 |
Luthers Catholic opponents | 97 |
Books pamphlets and polemic | 109 |
Cranach workshop | 114 |
Italy | 277 |
Spain | 296 |
Calvin and Geneva | 309 |
The French Wars of Religion | 323 |
The Netherlands | 344 |
England after 1558 | 365 |
Germany after 1550 | 387 |
Scotland | 410 |
The German Peasants War and the rural Reformation | 127 |
The princely Reformation in Germany | 146 |
Switzerland | 169 |
Eastern Europe | 190 |
France | 211 |
England | 225 |
Anabaptism | 237 |
Scandinavia | 257 |