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.
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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
11 The Italian Reformation 169
Massimo Firpo
12 The Reformation in Bohemia and Poland 185
James R. Palmitessa
13 Old and New Faith in Hungary, Turkish Hungary, and Transylvania 205
Istvan Gyorgy Toth
Part IV Catholic Renewal and Confessional Struggles
14 The Society of Jesus 223
John O’Malley
15 Female Religious Orders 237
Amy E. Leonard
16 The Inquisition 255
William Monter
17 The Thirty Years’ War 272
Johannes Burkhardt
18 Spain and Portugal 291
Jose Pedro Paiva
19 Parish Communities, Civil War, and Religious Conflict in England 311
Dan Beaver
Part V Christian Europe and the World
20 Religion and the Church in Early Latin America 335
Kevin Terraciano
21 Compromise: India 353
Ines G. Zupanov
22 Promise: China 375
R. Po-chia Hsia
23 A Mission Interrupted: Japan 393
Michael Cooper
Part VI Structures of the Reformation World
24 The New Parish 411
Bruce Gordon
25 Making Peace 426
Olivier Christin
26 Magic and Witchcraft 440
James A. Sharpe
27 Martyrs and Saints 455
Brad S. Gregory
28 Jews in a Divided Christendom 471
Miriam Bodian
29 Coexistence, Conflict, and the Practice of Toleration 486
Benjamin J. Kaplan
Bibliography 506
Index 553
Sobre el autor
R. Po-chia Hsia is Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of
History at Pennsylvania State University. He previously taught at
Columbia, Cornell, University of Massachusetts, and New York
University. He has received fellowships from the United States and
Germany, and has held visiting professorships and research
positions in Germany and the Netherlands. Elected in 2000 to the
Academia Sinica (Taiwan), he is currently researching the history
of Sino-European relations from the 16th to the 18th centuries. His
books include Society and Religion in Munster
1535-1618 (1984), Social Discipline in the
Reformation. Central Europe 1550-1750 (1989), and
The World of Catholic Renewal 1540-1770 (1998).
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