Palgrave Advances in the European Reformations

Palgrave Advances

by Alec Ryrie (Editor), David V.N. Bagchi (Contributor), Philip M. Soergel (Contributor)

This collection provides a thorough introduction to and critical commentary on recent scholarship on the Reformation. Thirteen leading British, American and Australian scholars discuss the variety of Reformations across Europe, and provide overviews of key problems and themes. In addition to surveying the "long" historiographical background, these essays offer a detailed synthesis of research published in the last twenty or thirty years, including material not normally available to a non-specialist readership. This book is an invaluable introduction to the field for students at all levels.

Contents:
Introduction: the European reformations / Alec Ryrie --
Germany and the Lutheran reformation / David Bagchi --
Central and Eastern Europe / Graeme Murdock --
The Swiss reformation / Bruce Gordon --
The low countries / Judith Pollmann --
France / Penny Roberts --
Britain and Ireland / Alec Ryrie --
Renaissance humanism and the Reformation / Craig D'Alton --
Print and print culture / Andrew Pettegree --
The Catholic reformation / Trevor Johnson --
Anabaptism and religious radicalism / Michael Driedger --
Popular religion / Philip M. Soergel --
Women, gender and sexuality / Merry Wiesner-Hanks --
Religious persecution and warfare / William Monter.

312 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Alec Ryrie is a prize-winning historian of the Reformation and Protestantism. He is the author of Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt and Protestants: The Faith That Made the Modern World. Ryrie is Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University and Professor of Divinity at Gresham College, London.