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List of contents
Introduction Henry Jefferies and Richard Rex; 1. Saxon comparisons: the reformation as a game-changer Christoph Volkmar; 2. Contrasting outcomes in the Swiss confederation Amy Nelson Burnett; 3. Austria and Bohemia Howard Louthan; 4. In the shadow of the crescent moon: Hungary and Transylvania Béla Vilmos Mihalik; 5. Beyond toleration: the eastern orthodox Church in reformation Europe Liudmyla Sharipova; 6. Nordic reformations compared Göran Malmstedt; 7. The reformations along the Southern Baltic Littoral Maciej Ptaszy¿ski; 8. Reformations in the low countries Christine Kooi; 9. The reformation in England and France Richard Rex; 10. British reformations compared Henry Jefferies; 11. The reception of the protestant reformation in the Iberian Peninsula Michel Boeglin; 12. Italy and its reformations reconsidered Simone Maghenzani.
About the author
Henry A. Jefferies is a Research Associate in History at Ulster University. His research interests include the Irish Church and religion in the late medieval and early modern eras, with a recent focus on women and religion in Tudor Ireland. Previous publications include Priests and Prelates of Armagh in the Age of Reformations (1997) and The Irish Church and the Tudor Reformations (2010).Richard Rex is Professor of Reformation History at the University of Cambridge. His research interests encompass the Reformation on both sides of the 'German Ocean' across the late medieval and the early modern era. Previous publications include Henry VIII and the English Reformation (1992; 2nd edn. 2006), The Lollards (2002), and The Making of Martin Luther (2017).
Summary
Comparative essays by an international panel of historians offer fresh insights into the unfolding of the Reformation across Europe. From Saxony to the Baltic to Transylvania, each chapter draws out the variables that shaped the spread of the Reformation across comparable geographic spaces, offering new perspectives on this epochal subject.
