Reformation Europe 1517-1559

by Elton, Geoffrey R.; Pettegree, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780631215080
• ISBN10: 0631215085
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-16
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This is G.R. Elton's classic account of the Reformation, revealing the issues and preoccupations which seemed central to the age and portraying its leading figures with vigour and realism.

Author Biography

G. R. Elton was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University from 1983 to 1988. Among his numerous works are The Tudor Revolution in Government (1953), England under the Tudors (1955), Reform and Renewal (1973), The Parliament of England 1559-1581, and The English (Blackwell, 1992). He was founding editor of the Blackwell History of the Modern British Isles. he died in 1994.

Andrew Pettergree is Professor in Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the St Andrews Reformation Studies Institute.

Table of Contents

Maps	ix
Preface to the First Edition	xi
Luther	1	(15)
The Attack on Rome	1	(6)
The State of Germany	7	(9)
Charles V	16	(14)
Years of Triumph	30	(24)
The Progress of Lutheranism	30	(9)
Zwingli	39	(7)
The Wars of Charles V	46	(8)
The Radicals	54	(14)
Outside Germany	68	(28)
The South	69	(5)
The West	74	(9)
The North	83	(5)
The East	88	(8)
The Formation of Parties	96	(26)
The Emergence of Protestantism	96	(14)
The Search for a Solution	110	(12)
The Revival of Rome	122	(25)
Catholic Reform	122	(7)
Counter-Reformation	129	(8)
The Jesuits and the New Papacy	137	(10)
Calvin	147	(22)
The Meaning of Calvinism	147	(9)
The Reformation in Geneva	156	(7)
The Spread of Calvinism	163	(6)
War and Peace	169	(26)
The Triumph of Charles V	169	(8)
The Defeat of Charles V	177	(13)
The End of an Age	190	(5)
The Age	195	(38)
The Religious Revolution	195	(7)
Art, Literature and Learning	202	(10)
The Nation State	212	(5)
Society	217	(10)
The Expansion of Europe	227	(6)
Afterword to the Second Edition	233	(14)
Andrew Pettegree
Notes	247	(6)
Further Reading	253	(5)
Index	258