A companion to the reformation world

Author(s)

• Hsia, R. Po-chia

Bibliographic Information

A companion to the reformation world

edited by R. Po-chia Hsia

（Blackwell companions to European history）

Blackwell Publishing, 2006, c2004

• : pbk

Note

"First published in paperback 2006 by Brackwell Publishing Ltd"-- T.p. verso

Bibliography: p. [506]-552

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

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 Gyoergy 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. upanov 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

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Details

• NCID: BA85932826
• ISBN:
  • 9781405149624
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: [Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass.]
• Pages/Volumes: xix, 572 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BR309
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Reformation
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA6483939X