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The Reformation in National Context

Editors:
Robert Scribner, University of Cambridge
Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London
Mikulas Teich, University of Cambridge

Bob Scribner, Kaspar von Greyerz, Mark Greengrass, Wiebe Bergsma, Patrick Collinson, Julian Goodare, Ole Peter Grell, Frantisek Kavka, Katalin Pete, Janusz Tazbir, Silvana Seidel Menchi, Henry Kamen

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Date Published: March 2011
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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."
- A further volume in the sequence of pioneering studies edited by Porter and Teich, now joined by the noted Reformation scholar Bob Scribner
- The first volume to discuss the Reformation by making comparisons between its progress or lack of it in various European countries
- Contains essays written by some of the leading Reformation scholars of the day
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"...[the editors have] assembled a steller, all-European group of experts, each of whom presents both a summary and an interpretation of the Reformation in the light of the latest, confession-surmounting, often socially oriented, and inevitably revisionist historiography... College and university teachers would be well advised to adopt this excellent collection as a means of providing their students with a geographically and modally broader introduction to the Reformation than is normally possible." The Catholic Historical Review
"These interpretative essay by scholars noted for their work on various national contexts are an impressively comprehensive...exercise in social history." Sixteenth Century Journal
"...the volume offers a most valuable comparison of how in different 'national' settings the impetus for reform encountered and sometimes permeated the political and social movements of the time. All university, college, and seminary libraries should have this book." Religious Studies Review
"...appropriate to students and general readers, as well as scholars....by the very nature of the volume, no one who picks it up can leave it unenlightened, because no one can know much about everything including in it....The continuity of reform makes this book essential reading; its vigor and style usually make reading it a pleasure. One can fully appreciate the books many strengths and achievements, without condoning its venial omissions." Seventeenth-Century News
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- Date Published: March 2011
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511878695
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Introduction Bob Scribner
1. Germany Bob Scribner
2. Switzerland Kaspar von Greyerz
3. France Mark Greengrass
4. The Low Countries Wiebe Bergsma
5. England Patrick Collinson
6. Scotland Julian Goodare
7. Scandinavia Ole Peter Grell
8. Bohemia Frantisek Kavka
9. Hungary Katalin Peter
10. Poland Janusz Tazbir
11. Italy Silvana Seidel Menchi
12. Spain Henry Kamen
13. A comparative overview.
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Editors
Robert Scribner, University of Cambridge
Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London
Mikulas Teich, University of Cambridge
Contributors
Bob Scribner, Kaspar von Greyerz, Mark Greengrass, Wiebe Bergsma, Patrick Collinson, Julian Goodare, Ole Peter Grell, Frantisek Kavka, Katalin Pete, Janusz Tazbir, Silvana Seidel Menchi, Henry Kamen