A Companion to the Reformation World

by Hsia, R. Po-chia

• ISBN13: 9781405149624
• ISBN10: 1405149620
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-24
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume brings together 29 new essays by leading international scholars, to provide an inclusive overview of recent work in Reformation history. The articles examine the Reformation in its broadest definition, presenting the Catholic Renewal as a continuum of the Protestant Reformation. The essays span the late fifteenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century and they focus on the workings of religious reform in all areas of Latin Christendom and beyond to include Eastern as well as Western Europe, Asia and the Americas. Established topics are examined alongside new areas of study, incorporating the latest scholarship and conceptual debates to provide a wide-ranging survey of the state of contemporary Reformation historiography. The book will be the ideal reference for students and professional historians interested in understanding the current concerns and future direction of this field.

Author Biography

R. Po-chia Hsia is Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University. He previously taught at Columbia, Cornell, University of Massachusetts, and New York University. He has received fellowships from the United States and Germany, and has held visiting professorships and research positions in Germany and the Netherlands. Elected in 2000 to the Academia Sinica (Taiwan), he is currently researching the history of Sino-European relations from the 16th to the 18th centuries. His books include Society and Religion in Munster 1535–1618 (1984), Social Discipline in the Reformation. Central Europe 1550–1750 (1989), and The World of Catholic Renewal 1540–1770 (1998).

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	(19)
Euan Cameron
2 Society and Piety	22	(17)
Larissa Taylor
PART II THE REFORMATION IN THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
3 Martin Luther and the German Nation	39	(17)
Robert Kolb
4 The Peasants' War	56	(14)
Tom Scott
5 Radical Religiosity in the German Reformation	70	(16)
Hans Jürgen Goertz
6 The Reformation in German-Speaking Switzerland	86	(19)
Kaspar von Greyerz
PART III THE EUROPEAN REFORMATION
7 Calvin and Geneva	105	(13)
Robert M. Kingdon
8 Reform in the Low Countries	118	(17)
Joke Spaans
9 The Reformation in England to 1603	135	(15)
Christopher Haigh
10 The Religious Wars in France	150	(19)
Barbara B. Diefendorf
11 The Italian Reformation	169	(16)
Massimo Firpo
12 The Reformation in Bohemia and Poland	185	(20)
James R. Palmitessa
13 Old and New Faith in Hungary, Turkish Hungary, and Transylvania	205	(18)
István György Tóth
PART IV CATHOLIC RENEWAL AND CONFESSIONAL STRUGGLES
14 The Society of Jesus	223	(14)
John O'Malley
15 Female Religious Orders	237	(18)
Amy E. Leonard
16 The Inquisition	255	(17)
William Monter
17 The Thirty Years' War	272	(19)
Johannes Burkhardt
18 Spain and Portugal	291	(20)
José Pedro Paiva
19 Parish Communities, Civil War, and Religions Conflict in England	311	(24)
Dan Beaver
PART V CHRISTIAN EUROPE AND THE WORLD
20 Religion and the Church in Early Latin America	335	(18)
Kevin Terraciano
21 Compromise: India	353	(22)
Ines G. Županov
22 Promise: China	375	(18)
R. Po-chin Hsia
23 A Mission Interrupted: Japan	393	(18)
Michael Cooper
PART VI STRUCTURES OF THE REFORMATION WORLD
24 The New Parish	411	(15)
Bruce Gordon
25 Making Peace	426	(14)
Olivier Christin
26 Magic and Witchcraft	440	(15)
James A. Sharpe
27 Martyrs and Saints	455	(16)
Brad S. Gregory
28 Jews in a Divided Christendom	471	(15)
Miriam Bodian
29 Coexistence, Conflict, and the Practice of Toleration	486	(20)
Benjamin J. Kaplan
Bibliography	506	(47)
Index	553