Contesting the Reformation

by Dixon, C. Scott

• ISBN13: 9781405113267
• ISBN10: 140511326X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-30
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Contesting the Reformation provides a comprehensive survey of the most influential works in the field of Reformation studies from a comparative, cross-national, interdisciplinary perspective. Represents the only English-language single-authored synthetic study of Reformation historiography Addresses both the English and the Continental debates on Reformation history Provides a thematic approach which takes in the main trends in modern Reformation history Draws on the most recent publications relating to Reformation studies Considers the social, political, cultural, and intellectual implications of the Reformation and the associated literature

Author Biography

C. Scott Dixon is Senior Lecturer at Queen's University, Belfast. He is the author of numerous books and articles on early-modern religious, history, including The Reformation and Rural Society (1996), The Reformation in Germany (2002), and Protestants: A History from Wittenberg to Pennsylvania, 1517-1740 (2010).

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	p. vi
Introduction	p. 1
Defining the Reformation	p. 8
Religious Life	p. 34
The Anatomy of Reform	p. 71
Reformation Politics	p. 103
The Social Dynamics	p. 130
Confessional Cultures	p. 163
Appendix: Did Luther Post the Ninety-Five Theses?	p. 205
Further Reading	p. 208
Index	p. 220
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