This volume brings together 29 new essays by leading international scholars, to provide an inclusive overview of recent work in Reformation history.
- Presents Catholic Renewal as a continuum of the Protestant Reformation.
- Examines Reformation in Eastern and Western Europe, Asia and the Americas.
- Takes a broad, inclusive approach – covering both traditional topics and cutting-edge areas of debate.
List of Contributors viii
Introduction: The Reformation and its Worlds xii
R. Po-chia Hsia
Part I On the Eve of the Reformation
1 Dissent and Heresy 3
Euan Cameron
2 Society and Piety 22
Larissa Taylor
Part II The Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire
3 Martin Luther and the German Nation 39
Robert Kolb
4 The Peasants’ War 56
Tom Scott
5 Radical Religiosity in the German Reformation 70
Hans-Jurgen Goertz
6 The Reformation in German-Speaking Switzerland 86
Kaspar von Greyerz
Part III The European Reformation
7 Calvin and Geneva 105
Robert M. Kingdon
8 Reform in the Low Countries 118
Joke Spaans
9 The Reformation in England to 1603 135
Christopher Haigh
10 The Religious Wars in France 150
Barbara B. Diefendorf
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