Reformation

Brill, 2021. — xvi, 478 p., 6 maps, 2 tables — (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 96). A Companion to the Reformation in Geneva describes the course of the Protestant Reformation in the city of Geneva from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. It explores the beginnings of reform in the city, the struggles the reformers encountered when seeking to teach,...

Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 241 p. This book explores the secrets of the extraordinary editorial success of Jacobus Acontius' Satan's Stratagems, an important book that intrigued readers and outraged religious authorities across Europe. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, the work, first published in Basel in 1565, was a resounding success. For the next century, it was...

Bloomsbury Continuum, 2021. — 272 p. As an authority on the religion of medieval and early modern England, Eamon Duffy is preeminent. In his revisionist masterpiece The Stripping of the Altars, Duffy opened up new areas of research and entirely fresh perspectives on the origin and progress of the English Reformation. Duffy's focus has always been on the practices and...

Brill, 2019. — XIV, 459 p. — (St. Andrews studies in Reformation history). — ISBN: 978-90-04-39317-2, 978-90-04-39318-9. 'Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe' offers an expansive view of the Protestant reception of medieval mysticism, from the beginnings of the Reformation through the mid-seventeenth century. Providing a foundation and impetus for future research,...

Oxford University Press, 2014. — 384 p. — (The New Cultural History of Music Series). Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria explores the nature of sound as a powerful yet ambivalent force in the religious struggles that permeated Germany during the Counter-Reformation. Author Alexander J. Fisher goes beyond a musicological treatment of...

Harvard University Press, 2015. — 592 p. In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation and traces the way it shaped the modern condition over the following five centuries. A hyperpluralism of religious and secular beliefs, an absence of any substantive common good, the triumph of...

Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 267 p. Fundamentally revising our understanding of the nature and intellectual contours of early English Protestantism, Karl Gunther argues that sixteenth-century English evangelicals were calling for reforms and envisioning godly life in ways that were far more radical than have hitherto been appreciated. Typically such ideas have been seen...

Oxford University Press, 2015. — 288 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). When Martin Luther mounted his challenge to the Catholic Church, reform stimulated a range of responses, including radical solutions such as those proposed by theologians of the Anabaptist movement. But how did ordinary Anabaptists, men and women, grapple with the theological and emotional challenges of...

Clarendon Press, 2000. — 286 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). Johann Heinrich Alsted, professor of philosophy and theology at the Calvinist academy of Heborn, was a man of many parts. A deputy to the famous Synod of Dort and greatest encyclopaedist of his age, he was also a pioneer of Calvinist millenarianism and a devoted student of astrology, alchemy, Lullism, and the...

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 436 p. This book examines the experiences and interconnections of the Reformations, principally in Denmark-Norway and Britain and Ireland (but with an eye to the broader Scandinavian landscape as well), and also discusses instances of similarities between the Reformations in both realms. The volume features a comprehensive introduction, and provides...

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 436 p. This book examines the experiences and interconnections of the Reformations, principally in Denmark-Norway and Britain and Ireland (but with an eye to the broader Scandinavian landscape as well), and also discusses instances of similarities between the Reformations in both realms. The volume features a comprehensive introduction, and provides...

Oxford University Press, 2014. — 240 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). Women and the Counter-Reformation in Early Modern Münster examines how women from different social backgrounds encountered the Counter-Reformation. The focus is on Münster, a city in the north of Germany, which was exposed to powerful Protestant influences which culminated in the notorious Anabaptist...

Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020. — 333 p. — (Refo500 Academic Studies (R5AS) 66). Zeit seines Lebens neigte Goethe, der schon in jungen Jahren sehr bibelfest war, zu Themen, die sich um die weit gefassten Begriffe der Religion und Religiosität rankten. Seine kritische Haltung in diesen Angelegenheiten, zusammen mit der bereits in den 1770er Jahren vollzogenen Wendung zum...

Puffin Books, 2005. — 864 p. Winner of the Wolfson Prize for history, Diarmaid MacCulloch's "Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700" charts a seismic shift in European culture that marked the beginning of the modern world. At a time when men and women were prepared to kill - and be killed - for their faith, the Reformation tore the western world apart. Acclaimed as the...

Puffin Books, 2005. — 864 p. Winner of the Wolfson Prize for history, Diarmaid MacCulloch's "Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700" charts a seismic shift in European culture that marked the beginning of the modern world. At a time when men and women were prepared to kill - and be killed - for their faith, the Reformation tore the western world apart. Acclaimed as the...

Macmillan Education, 1990. — 210 p. The English Reformation was the event that chiefly shaped English identity well into the 20th century. It made the English kingdom a self-consciously Protestant state dominating the British Isles, and boasting an established Church that eventually developed a peculiar religious agenda, Anglicanism. Although Henry VIII triggered a break with...

Oxford University Press, 2015. — 320 p. — (Oxford Illustrated Histories). The Reformation was a seismic event in history, whose consequences are still working themselves out in Europe and across the world. The protests against the marketing of indulgences staged by the German monk Martin Luther in 1517 belonged to a long-standing pattern of calls for internal reform and renewal...

Oxford University Press, 2022. — 238 p. The Reformation was a seismic event in history whose consequences are still unfolding in Europe and across the world. Martin Luther's protests against the marketing of indulgences in 1517 were part of a long-standing pattern of calls for reform in the Christian Church. But they rapidly took a radical and unexpected turn, engulfing first...

Oxford University Press, 2009. - 165 p. The Reformation was a seismic event in European history, one which left an indelible mark on the modern world. In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Marshall illuminates the causes and consequences of this pivotal movement in western Christianity. The Reformation began as an argument about what Christians needed to do to be saved, but...

Cambridge: Wiley-Blackwell, 1995, 223 p. The sixteenth-century Reformation remains a fascinating and exciting area of study. The revised edition of this distinguished volume explores the intellectual origins of the Reformation and examines the importance of ideas in the shaping of history. Provides an updated and expanded version of the original, highly-acclaimed edition....

I.B. Tauris, 2018. — 256 p. When, in October 1517, Martin Luther pinned his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg he shattered the foundations of western Christendom. The Reformation of doctrine and practice that followed Luther's seismic action, and protest against the sale of indulgences, fragmented the Church and overturned previously accepted...

Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 264 p. The Reformation was an international movement, but at the same time it achieved strikingly different levels of success in different parts of Europe. The Early Reformation in Europe explores these contrasts and comparisons through a series of specially commissioned essays by leading specialists in European history. These will serve both...

Blackwell Publishing, 2004. — 592 p. Introduction: The Reformation and its Worlds R. Po-chia Hsia On the Eve of the Reformation Dissent and Heresy Euan Cameron Society and Piety Larissa Taylor The Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire Martin Luther and the German Nation Robert Kolb The Peasants’ War Tom Scott Radical Religiosity in the German Reformation Hans-Jürgen Goertz The...

Oxford University Press, 2017. — 672 p. This is the first Handbook of the Reformations to include global Protestantism and the most comprehensive Handbook on the development of Protestant practices which has been published so far. The volume brings together international scholars in the fields of theology, intellectual thought, and social and cultural history. Contributions...

Oxford University Press, 2017. — 672 p. This is the first Handbook of the Reformations to include global Protestantism and the most comprehensive Handbook on the development of Protestant practices which has been published so far. The volume brings together international scholars in the fields of theology, intellectual thought, and social and cultural history. Contributions...

Oxford University Press, 2013. - 520 p. The Reformation was about ideas and power, but it was also about real human lives. Alec Ryrie provides the first comprehensive account of what it actually meant to live a Protestant life in England and Scotland between 1530 and 1640, drawing on a rich mixture of contemporary devotional works, sermons, diaries, biographies, and...

Routledge, 2019. — 288 p. Global Reformations offers a sustained, comparative, and interdisciplinary exploration of religious transformations in the early modern world. The volume explores global developments and tracks the many ways in which Reformation movements shaped relations of Christians with other Christians, and also with Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and aboriginal groups...

ABC-CLIO, 2018. — 318 p. The Protestant Reformation was a pivotal event in world history and religion. Documents of the Reformation collects more than 60 primary documents that shed light on the personalities, issues, ideas, and events of the 16th-century upheaval and will help readers understand how and why the Protestant Reformation began and transpired as it did. The book is...

Truman State University Press , 2007. — 352 p. — (Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies). This new volume updates and continues the tradition of publishing a survey of historical investigation in Reformation and early modern Europe. Written by expert scholars in the field, these eighteen essays explore the fundamental points of Reformation and early modern history. Each author...