List of Contributors viii Introduction: The Reformation and its Worlds xiiR. Po-chia Hsia Part I On the Eve of the Reformation 1 Dissent and Heresy 3Euan Cameron 2 Society and Piety 22Larissa Taylor Part II The Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire 3 Martin Luther and the German Nation 39Robert Kolb 4 The Peasants' War 56Tom Scott 5 Radical Religiosity in the German Reformation 70Hans-Jurgen Goertz 6 The Reformation in German-Speaking Switzerland 86Kaspar von Greyerz Part III The European Reformation 7 Calvin and Geneva 105Robert M. Kingdon 8 Reform in the Low Countries 118Joke Spaans 9 The Reformation in England to 1603 135Christopher Haigh 10 The Religious Wars in France 150Barbara B. Diefendorf 11 The Italian Reformation 169Massimo Firpo 12 The Reformation in Bohemia and Poland 185James R. Palmitessa 13 Old and New Faith in Hungary, Turkish Hungary, and Transylvania 205Istvan Gyorgy Toth Part IV Catholic Renewal and Confessional Struggles 14 The Society of Jesus 223John O'Malley 15 Female Religious Orders 237Amy E. Leonard 16 The Inquisition 255William Monter 17 The Thirty Years' War 272Johannes Burkhardt 18 Spain and Portugal 291Jose Pedro Paiva 19 Parish Communities, Civil War, and Religious Conflict in England 311Dan Beaver Part V Christian Europe and the World 20 Religion and the Church in Early Latin America 335Kevin Terraciano 21 Compromise: India 353Ines G. Zupanov 22 Promise: China 375R. Po-chia Hsia 23 A Mission Interrupted: Japan 393Michael Cooper Part VI Structures of the Reformation World 24 The New Parish 411Bruce Gordon 25 Making Peace 426Olivier Christin 26 Magic and Witchcraft 440James A. Sharpe 27 Martyrs and Saints 455Brad S. Gregory 28 Jews in a Divided Christendom 471Miriam Bodian 29 Coexistence, Conflict, and the Practice of Toleration 486Benjamin J. Kaplan Bibliography 506 Index 553
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