A Companion to the Reformation World

Features essays that provide an overview of work in Reformation history. These articles present the Catholic Renewal as a continuum of the Protestant Reformation, and focus on the workings of religious reform in various areas of Latin Christendom. This book is useful to students and professional historians. Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction: The Reformation and its Worlds; Part I: On the Eve of the Reformation; 1: Dissent and Heresy; 2: Society and Piety; Part II: The Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire; 3: Martin Luther and the German Nation; 4: The Peasants' War; 5: Radical Religiosity in the German Reformation; 6: The Reformation in German-Speaking Switzerland; Part III: The European Reformation; 7: Calvin and Geneva; 8: Reform in the Low Countries; 9: The Reformation in England to 1603; 10: The Religious Wars in France; 11: The Italian Reformation. 12: The Reformation in Bohemia and Poland13: Old and New Faith in Hungary, Turkish Hungary, and Transylvania; Part IV: Catholic Renewal and Confessional Struggles; 14: The Society of Jesus; 15: Female Religious Orders; 16: The Inquisition; 17: The Thirty Years' War; 18: Spain and Portugal; 19: Parish Communities, Civil War, and Religious Conflict in England; Part V: Christian Europe and the World; 20: Religion and the Church in Early Latin America; 21