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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Euan Cameron 2 Society and Piety 22 Larissa Taylor Part II The Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire 3 Martin Luther and the German Nation 39 Robert Kolb 4 The Peasants' War 56 Tom Scott 5 Radical Religiosity in the German Reformation 70 Hans-J ü rgen Goertz 6 The Reformation in German-Speaking Switzerland 86 Kaspar von Greyerz Part III The European Reformation 7 Calvin and Geneva 105 Robert M. Kingdon 8 Reform in the Low Countries 118 Joke Spaans 9 The Reformation in England to 1603 135 Christopher Haigh 10 The Religious Wars in France 150 Barbara B. Diefendorf 11 The Italian Reformation 169 Massimo Firpo 12 The Reformation in Bohemia and Poland 185 James R. Palmitessa 13 Old and New Faith in Hungary, Turkish Hungary, and Transylvania 205 István György Tóth Part IV Catholic Renewal and Confessional Struggles 14 The Society of Jesus 223 John O'Malley 15 Female Religious Orders 237 Amy E. Leonard 16 The Inquisition 255 William Monter 17 The Thirty Years' War 272 Johannes Burkhardt 18 Spain and Portugal 291 José Pedro Paiva 19 Parish Communities, Civil War, and Religious Conflict in England 311 Dan Beaver Part V Christian Europe and the World 20 Religion and the Church in Early Latin America 335 Kevin Terraciano 21 Compromise: India 353 Ines G. ? upanov 22...
