The Reformation in National Context [Hardcover]

An exploration of the 'Reformation experience' in various contrasting European countries.In discussing the reform movements in 12 European countries, this survey considers those in which the Reformation was strikingly successful as well as those where it failed. Individual essays emphasize local preconditions and limitations encountered as it spread from Germany.In discussing the reform movements in 12 European countries, this survey considers those in which the Reformation was strikingly successful as well as those where it failed. Individual essays emphasize local preconditions and limitations encountered as it spread from Germany.This collection of essays explores the experience of religious reform in national context. In discussing similarities and differences among the reform movements in a dozen European countries, the book considers countries in which the Reformation was strikingly successful and those where it failed to make an impact. The individual essays emphasize the local preconditions and limitations that the Reformation encountered as it spread from Germany into most of the countries of western and central Europe. Together they present a picture of the many-sided nature of the Reformation as it grew up in each national context. Introduction Bob Scribner; 1. Germany Bob Scribner; 2. Switzerland Kaspar von Greyerz; 3. France Mark Greengrass; 4. The Low Countries Wiebe Bergsma; 5. England Patrick Collinson; 6. Scotland Julian Goodare; 7. Scandinavia Ole Peter Grell; 8. Bohemia Frantisek Kavka; 9. Hungary Katalin Peter; 10. Poland Janusz Tazbir; 11. Italy Silvana Seidel Menchi; 12. Spain Henry Kamen; 13. A comparative overview. ...[the editors have] assembled a steller, all-European group of experts, each of whom presents both a summary and an interpretation of the Reformation in the light of the latest, confession-surmounting, often socially oriented, and inevitably revisionist historiography... College and university teachers would be well advised tol#S