edited by Bob Scribner, Roy Porter, and Mikuláš Teich.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York, NY :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1994.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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ix, 236 pages ;
Dimensions
23 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Germany / Bob Scribner -- Switzerland / Kaspar von Greyerz -- France / Mark Greengrass -- The Low Countries / Wiebe Bergsma -- England / Patrick Collinson -- Scotland / Julian Goodare -- Scandinavia / Ole Peter Grell -- Bohemia / František Kavka -- Hungary / Katalin Peter -- Poland / Janusz Tazbir -- Italy / Silvana Seidel Menchi -- Spain / Henry Kamen -- A comparative overview / Bob Scribner.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"The collection of essays by prominent historians of the Reformation explores the experience of religious reform in 'national context', discussing similarities and differences between the reform movements in a dozen different countries of sixteenth-century Europe. Each author provides an interpretative essay emphasising local peculiarities and national variants on the broader theme of the Reformation as a European phenomenon. The individual essays thus emphasise the local preconditions and limitations which encountered the Reformation 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'. The book includes examples of countries where the Reformation was strikingly successful, as well as those where it failed to make an impact. A final comparative essay seeks to understand the different 'Reformations' as variations on an overall theme." "This volume forms part of a sequence of collections of essays which began with The Enlightenment in national context (1981) and has continued with Revolution in history (1986), Romanticism in national context (1988), Fin de siecle and its legacy (1990), The Renaissance in national context (1991), The Scientific Revolution in national context (1992), and The national question in Europe in historical context (1993). The purpose of these and other envisaged collections is to bring together comparative, national and interdisciplinary approaches to the history of great movements in the development of human thought and action."--Jacket.