The Reformation in National Context

by Roy Porter (Editor), Robert Scribner (Editor), Mikulás Teich (Editor)

This collection of essays explores the experience of religious reform in "national context." In discussing similarities and differences among the reform movements in a dozen European countries, the book considers countries in which the Reformation was strikingly successful and those where it failed to make an impact. The individual essays emphasize the local preconditions and limitations that the Reformation encountered as it spread from Germany into most of the countries of western and central Europe. Together they present a picture of the many-sided nature of the Reformation as it grew up in each "national context."

248 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Roy's books cover several fields: the history of geology, London, 18th-Century British ideas and society, medicine, madness, quackery, patients and practitioners, literature and art, on which subjects (and others) he published over 200 books are articles.

List of works can be found @ wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Porter )

Reviews

[Josep Marti · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome companion to Pettegree's work, and it pays much closer attention to popular elements of the Reformation, as opposed to the theological debate in the background.