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Foundations

John Bossy, Christianity in the West, 1400-1700 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985).
Thomas A. Brady, Jr., et al., eds., Handbook of European History, 1400-1600: Late Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Reformation, 2 vols. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994-1995).
Thomas A. Brady, Jr., German Histories in the Age of Reformations, 1400-1650 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Euan Cameron, The European Reformation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991).
G.R. Elton, Reformation Europe, 1517-1559, 2d ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999).
C. Scott Dixon, The Reformation in Germany (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002).
R. Po-chia Hsia, ed. The German People and the Reformation (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988).
Henry Kamen, Early Modern European Society (New York: Routledge, 2000).
Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Reformation: A History (New York: Viking, 2003).
Alister McGrath, Reformation Thought: An Introduction, 2d ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993).
John W. O’Malley, S.J., ed., Catholicism in Early Modern Europe: A Guide to Research (St. Louis: Center for Reformation Research, 1982).
David Whitford, ed. Reformation and Early Modern Europe: A Guide to Research (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2008).
Steven Ozment, The Age of Reform (1250-1550): An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980).
Eugene F. Rice, Jr., and Anthony Grafton, Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559, 2d ed. (New York: Norton, 1994).
Robert W. Scribner, The German Reformation (Atlantic Highlands: Macmillan, 1986).
Robert W. Scribner, Religion and Culture in Germany (1400-1800), ed. Lyndal Roper (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2001).
Robert W. Scribner, et al., eds., The Reformation in National Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
James D.Tracy, Europe’s Reformations 1450-1650 (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999).
An Age of Reforms

Gerhard Benecke, Maximilian I (1459-1519): An Analytic Biography (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982).
Anthony Black, Council and Commune: The Conciliar Movement and the Fifteenth-Century Heritage (London, 1979).
Wim Blockmans, Emperor Charles V, 1500-1558, trans. Isola van den Hoven-Vardon (London: Arnold, 2002).
Thomas A. Brady, Jr., Turing Swiss: Cities and Empire, 1450-1550 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).
Duncan Hardy, Associative Political Culture in the Holy Roman Empire: Upper Germany, 1346-1521 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).
Francis Oakley, Natural Law, Conciliarism and Consent in the Late Middle Ages: Studies in Ecclesiastical and Intellectual History (London, 1984).
Francis Oakley, The Western Church in the Late Middle Ages (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979).
Larry Silver, Marketing Maximilian: The Visual Ideology of a Holy Roman Emperor (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008).
Joachim W. Stieber, Pope Eugenius IV, the Council of Basel and the Secular and Ecclesiastical Authorities in the Empire: The Conflict Over Supreme Authority and Power in the Church (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1978).
Phillip H. Stump, The Reforms of the Council of Constance, 1414-1418 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994).
Hillay Zmora, State and Nobility in Early Modern Germany: The Knightly Feud in Franconia, 1440-1567 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997).


Order and Disorder in Late Medieval Europe

Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987).
Peter A. Dykema and Heiko A. Oberman, eds., Anticlericalism in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1993).
Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992).
Johan Huizinga, The Autumn of the Middle Ages, trans. Rodney J. Payton and Ulrich Mammitzsch (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).
Katherine Ludwig Jansen, The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).
Gordon Leff, Heresy in the Later Middle Ages: The Relation of Orthodoxy to Dissent, c. 1250-c. 1450 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1967).
Heiko A. Oberman, The Harvest of Medieval Theology: Gabriel Biel and Late Medieval Nominalism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963).
Miri Rubin, Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
R.N. Swanson, Religion and Devotion in Europe, c. 1215-c. 1515 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).  
André Vauchez, The Laity in the Late Middle Ages, trans. Margery J. Schneider (North Bend: Notre Dame University Press, 1993).
André Vauchez, Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages, trans. Jean Birrell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).


Luther, the “Luther Affair,” and Clerical Reformation

Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle, Rhetoric and Reform: Erasmus' Civil Dispute with Luther (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983).
Martin Brecht, Martin Luther, 3 vols., trans. James L. Schaaf (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985).
Gerhard Brendler, Martin Luther: Theology and Revolution, trans. Claude R. Foster, Jr. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991).
Amy Nelson Burnett, Karlstadt and the Origins of the Eucharistic Controversy: A Study in the Circulation of Ideas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Amy Nelson Burnett, The Yoke of Christ: Martin Bucer and Christian Discipline (Kirksville: Northeast Missouri State University Press, 1994).
Owen Chadwick, The Early Reformation on the Continent (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Ulrich Gäbler, Huldrych Zwingli: His Life and Work, trans. Ruth C.L. Gritsch (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1987).
Bruce Gordon, Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021).
Leif Grane, Martinus noster: Luther in the German Reform Movement, 1518-1521 (Mainz: Philip von Zabern, 1994).
Craig Harline, A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017).
Thomas Kaufmann, Luther's Jews: A Journey into Anti-Semitism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).
Clyde Manschreck, Melanchthon: The Quiet Reformer (New York: Abingdon Press, 1958).
Alister E. McGrath, Luther's Theology of the Cross: Martin Luther's Theological Breakthrough (Oxford: Blackwell, 1985).
Natalia Nowakowska, King Sigismund of Poland and Martin Luther: The Reformation before Confessionalization (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).
Heiko A. Oberman, Luther: Man Between God and the Devil, trans. Eileen Walliser-Schwarzbart (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989).
Heiko A. Oberman, The Reformation: Roots and Ramifications, trans. Andrew Colin Gow (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1994).
Steven Ozment, Protestants: The Birth of a Revolution (New York: Doubleday, 1992).
Calvin Augustine Pater, Karlstadt as the Father of the Baptist Movements: The Emergence of Lay Protestantism (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984).
G.R. Potter, Zwingli (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976).
Richard Rex, The Making of Martin Luther (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017).
Lyndal Roper, Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet (New York: Random House, 2017).
Eric Leland Saak, Luther and the Reformation of the Later Middle Ages (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Heinz Schilling, Martin Luther; Reben in an Age of Upheaval (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).
W.P. Stephens, The Theology of Huldrych Zwingli (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986).
W.P. Stephens, Zwingli: An Introduction to His Thought (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992).
Anne T. Thayer, Penitence, Preaching, and the Coming of the Reformation (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002).
Jared Wicks, Luther's Reform: Studies on Conversion and the Church (Mainz: Philip von Zabern, 1992).


An Urban Event? The Reformation in the Cities

Lorna Jane Abray, The People’s Reformation: Magistrates, Clergy, and Commons in Strasbourg, 1500-1598 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985).
Pamela Biel, Doorkeepers at the House of Righteousness: Heinrich Bullinger and the Zurich Clergy, 1535-1575 (New York: P. Lang, 1991).
Susan Brigden, London and the Reformation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990).
Miriam Usher Chrisman, Strasbourg and the Reform: A Study in the Process of Change (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967).
Philip Benedict, ed. Cities and Social Change in Early Modern France (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989).
Philip Benedict, Rouen During the Wars of Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).
Thomas A. Brady, Jr., Communities, Politics and Reformation in Early Modern Europe (Boston: E.J. Brill, 1998).
Thomas A. Brady, Jr., Protestant Politics: Jacob Sturm (1489-1553) and the German Reformation (Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1995).
Thomas A. Brady, Jr., Ruling Class, Regime and Reformation at Strasbourg, 1520-1555 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1978).
Christopher W. Close, The Negotiated Reformation: Imperial Cities and the Politics of Urban Reform, 1525-1550 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Kaspar von Greyerz, The Late City Reformation in Germany: The Case of Colmar, 1522-1628 (Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1980).
Hans R. Guggisberg, Basel in the Sixteenth Century: Aspects of the City Republic Before, During, and After the Reformation (St. Louis: Center for Reformation Research, 1982).
R. Po-Chia Hsia, Society and Religion in Münster, 1535-1618 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984).
Steven E. Ozment, The Reformation in the Cities: The Appeal of Protestantism to Sixteenth-Century Germany and Switzerland (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975).
Gerald Strauss, Nuremberg in the Sixteenth Century: City Politics and Life between Middle Ages and Modern Times, rev. ed. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976).
Peter G. Wallace, Communities and Conflict in Early Modern Colmar, 1575-1730 (Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1995).
Lee Palmer Wandel, "Envisioning God: Image and Liturgy in Reformation Zurich," Sixteenth Century Journal 24 (1993): 21-40.
Lee Palmer Wandel, Voracious Idols and Violent Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg, and Basel (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
Joachim Whaley, Religious Toleration and Social Change in Hamburg, 1529-1819 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).
Kristin E.S. Zapalac, "In his image and likeness": Political Iconography and Religious Change in Regensburg, 1500-1600 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990).


Revolution of the Common Man?

A) The Peasants' War and Reformation
Janos Bak, ed., The German Peasant War of 1525 (London: F. Cass, 1976).
Peter Blickle, Communal Reformation: The Quest for Salvation in Sixteenth-Century Germany, trans. Thomas Dunlap (Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1992).
Peter Blickle, The Revolution of 1525: The German Peasants' War From a New Perspective, trans. Thomas A. Brady, Jr., and H.C. Erik Midelfort (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981).
Peter Blickle, From the Communal Reformation to the Revolution of the Common Man, trans. Beat Kümin (Leiden: Brill, 1998).
Peter Blickle, Obedient Germans? A Rebuttal, trans. Thomas A. Brady, Jr. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997).
Paul H. Freedman, Images of the Medieval Peasant (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999).
Randolph C. Head, Early Modern Democracy in the Grisons: Social Order and Political Language in a Swiss Mountain Canton, 1470-1620 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Keith Moxey, Peasants, Warriors, and Wives: Popular Imagery in the Reformation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989).
Paul A. Russell, Lay Theology in the Reformation: Popular Pamphleteers in Southwest Germany, 1521-1525 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986).
Tom Scott, Freiburg and the Breisgau: Town-Country Relations in the Age of Reformation and Peasants' War (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986).
Robert W. Scribner, For the Sake of Simple Folk: Popular Propaganda for the German Reformation, 2d ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994).
Robert W. Scribner, Popular Culture and Popular Movements in Reformation Germany (London: Hambledon Press, 1988).
Robert W. Scribner and Gerhard Benecke, eds., The German Peasants’ War of 1525: New Viewpoints (Boston : Allen & Unwin, 1979).

B) 'Radical Reformation'
Anthony Arthur, The Tailor King: The Rrise and Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Münster (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999).
Harold Bender, Conrad Grebel, 1498-1526: The Founder of the Swiss Brethren, Sometimes Called Anabaptists (Scottsdale: Herald Press, 1971).
Claus-Peter Clasen, Anabaptism: A Social History, 1525-1618: Switzerland, Austria, Moravia, South and Central Germany (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1972).
Michael Driedger, Obedient Heretics: Mennonite Identities in Lutheran Hamburg and Altona during the Confessional Age (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002)
Hans-Jürgen Goertz, The Anabaptists (London: Routledge, 1996).
Hans-Jürgen Goertz and James M. Stayer, eds., Radikalität und Dissent im 16. Jahrhundert / Radicalism and Dissent in the Sixteenth Century (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2002).
Hans J. Hillerbrand, A Fellowship of Discontent (New York:  Harper & Row, 1967).
Walther Klaassen, Living at the End of the Ages: Apocalyptic Expectation in the Radical Reformation (Lanham: University Press of America, 1992).
Werner O. Packull, Hutterite Beginnings: Communitarian Experiments during the Reformation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).
R. Emmet McLaughlin, Caspar Schwenckfeld, Reluctant Radical: His Life to 1540 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986).
Michael A. Mullett, Radical Religious Movements in Early Modern Europe (London: Allen & Unwin, 1980).
Michael A. Mullett, Popular Culture and Popular Protest in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (London: Croom Helm, 1987).
James M. Stayer, The German Peasants' War and Anabaptist Community of Goods (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991).
Peter H. Stephenson, The Hutterian People: Ritual and Rebirth in the Evolution of Communal Life (Lanham: University Press of America, 1991).
Gary K. Waite, David Joris and Dutch Anabaptism, 1524-1543 (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1990).
George H. Williams, The Radical Reformation, 3d ed. (Kirksville: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1992).


Reformation, Gender, and the Family

Judith Brown, Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986).
Joel F. Harrington, Reordering Marriage and Society in Reformation Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Martin Ingram, Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570-1640 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
Olwen Hufton, The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe, 1500-1800 (New York: HarperCollins, 1995).
Robert M. Kingdon, Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995).
Simone Laqua-O'Donnell, Women and the Counter-Reformation in Early Modern Münster (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
Leah Leaneman, Sexuality and Social Control: Scotland 1660-1780 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989).
Amy Leonard, Nails in the Wall: Catholic Nuns in Reformation Germany (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005).
Steven Ozment, When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983).
Roderick Phillips, Putting Asunder: A History of Divorce in Western Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, From Priest's Whore to Pastor's Wife: Clerical Marriage and the Process of Reform in the Early German Reformation (Farnham: Ashgate: 2012).
Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, Stripping the Veil: Convent Reform, Protestant Nuns, and Female Devotional Life in Sixteenth-Century Germany  (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
Lyndal Roper, The Holy Household: Women and Morals in Reformation Augsburg (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988).
Lyndal Roper, Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, sexuality and religion in early modern Europe (London: Routledge, 1994).
Lyndal Roper, Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004).
Ulinka Rublack, The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany (Oxford: Clarendon, 2001).
Thomas Max Safley, Let No Man Put Asunder: The Control of Marriage in the German Southwest: A Comparative Study 1550-1600 (Kirksville: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1984).
Jeffrey Watt, The Making of Modern Marriage: Matrimonial Control and the Rise of Sentiment in Neuchâtel, 1550-1800 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992).
Merry Wiesner, Gender, Church, and State in Early Modern Germany (London: Longman, 1998).
Joy Wiltenburg, Disorderly Women and Female Power in the Street Literature of Early Modern England and Germany (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1992).
Heide Wunder, He is the Sun, She is the Moon: Women in Early Modern Germany (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998).


The Second Reformation

Pamela Biel, Doorkeepers at the House of Righteousness: Heinrich Bullinger and the Zurich Clergy, 1535-1575 (New York: P. Lang, 1991).
Philip Benedict, Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002).
William J. Bouwsma, John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988).
Patrick Collinson, English Puritanism (London: Historical Association, 1983).
Patrick Collinson, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (Berkeley: University of California Press 1967).
Phyllis Mack Crew, Calvinist Preaching and Iconoclasm in the Netherlands, 1544-1569 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978).
Barbara B. Diefendorf, Beneath the Cross: Catholics and Huguenots in Sixteenth-Century Paris (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991).
Carlos M.N. Eire, The War Against the Idols: The Reformation of Worship from Erasmus to Calvin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986).
Christopher Elwood, The Body Broken: The Calvinist Doctrine of the Eucharist and the Symbolization of Power in Sixteenth-Century France (Oxford: Oxvord University Press, 1999).
Bruce Gordon, The Swiss Reformation (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002).
Ole Peter Grell, Brethren in Christ: A Calvinist Network in Reformation Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Christopher Haigh, English Reformations: Religion, Politics, and Society under the Tudors (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993).
Robert M. Kingdon, Myths about the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacres, 1572-1576 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988).
Robert M. Kingdon, Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995).
Robert M. Kingdon, Geneva and the Consolidation of the French Protestant Movement, 1564-1572 (Geneva: Droz, 1967).
Robert M. Kingdon, Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion in France, 1555-1563 (Geneva: Droz, 1956).
Alister E. McGrath, A Life of John Calvin: A Study in the Shaping of Western Culture (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990).
E. William Monter, Calvin’s Geneva (New York: Wiley 1967).
Graeme Murdock, Calvinism on the Frontier, 1600-1660: International Calvinism and the Reformed Church in Hungary and Transylvania (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). William G. Naphy, Calvin and the Consolidation of the Genevan Reformation (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996).
Andrew Pettegree, Emden and the Dutch Revolt: Exile and the Development of Reformed Protestantism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992).
Heinz Schilling, Civic Calvinism in Northwestern Germany and the Netherlands: Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries (Kirksville: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1991).
François Wendel, Calvin: Origins and Development of His Religious Thought, trans. Philip Mairet (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1997).


The Reformation and the State

G.W. Bernard, The King's Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005).
Robert Bireley, S.J., Religion and Politics in the Age of the Counter-Reformation: Emperor Ferdinand II and William Lamormaini, S.J. and the Formation of Imperial Policy (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981).
Mark U. Edwards, Luther's Last Battles. Politics and Polemic, 1531-1546 (London, 1983).
Marc R. Forster, The Counter-Reformation in the Villages: Religion and Reform in the Bishopric of Speyer, 1560-1720 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992).
Marc R. Forster, Catholic Revival in the Age of Baroque: Religious Identity in Southwest Germany, 1550-1750 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Brad Gregory, Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999).
Hans J. Hillebrand, Landqrave Philip of Hesse, 1504-1567:  Religion and Politics in the Reformation (St. Louis: Foundation for Reformation Research, 1967).
R. Po-chia Hsia, Social Discipline in the Reformation: Central Europe, 1550- 1750 (London: Routledge, 1989).
Howard Louthan, Converting Bohemia: Force and Persuasion in the Catholic Reformation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Diane Margolf, Religion and Royal Justice in Early Modern France: The Paris 'Chambre de l'Edit,' 1598-1665 (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2003).
H.C. Erik Midelfort, The Mad Princes of Renaissance Germany (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1994).
Bodo Nischan, Prince, People, and Confession. The Second Reformation in Brandenburg. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994).
Nancy Lyman Roelker, One King, One Faith: The Parlement of Paris and the Religious Reformations of the Sixteenth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996).
Heinz Schilling, Religion, Political Culture, and the Emergence of Early Modern Society: Essays In German And Dutch History (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1992).
Heinz Schilling, Civic Calvinism in Northwestern Germany and the Netherlands: Sixteenth To Nineteenth Centuries (Kirksville: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1991).
Ethan Shagan, The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Gerald Strauss, Law, Resistance and the State: The Opposition to Roman Law in Reformation Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986).
Kristin Eldyss Sorensen Zapalac, 'In His Image and Likeness': Political Iconography and Religious Change in Regensburg, 1500-1600 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990).


Was the Reformation a Cultural Revolution?

C. Scott Dixon, The Reformation and Rural Society: The Parishes of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). 
Michael F. Graham, The Uses of Reform: Godly Discipline and Popular Behavior in Scotland and Beyond, 1560-1610 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996).
Bruce Gordon, Clerical Discipline and the Rural Reformation: The Synod in Zurich, 1532-1580 (New York, Peter Lang, 1992).
R. Po-chia Hsia, Social Discipline in the Reformation: Central Europe, 1550- 1750 (New York: Routledge, 1989).
Susan Karant-Nunn, The Reformation of Ritual: An Interpretation of Early Modern Germany (London: Routledge, 1997).
Susan Karant-Nunn, The Reformation of Feeling: Shaping the Religious Emotions of Early Modern Germany (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
Craig M. Koslofsky, The Reformation of the Dead: Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, 1450-1700 (New York: St. Martin's, 2000).
Keith Luria, Territories of Grace: Cultural Change in the Seventeenth-Century Diocese of Grenoble (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991).
Karen Spierling, Infant Baptism in Reformation Geneva: The Shaping of a Community, 1536-1564 (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009).
Jesse Spohnholz, The Convent of Wesel: The Event that Never Was and the Invention of Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Bruce Tolley, Pastors and Parishioners in Württemberg during the Late Reformation 1581-1621 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995).


Reformation Legacies

A) Charity and Poor Relief in Reformation Europe
Robert Jütte, Poverty and Deviance in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
Thomas Max Safley, Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg (Boston: Humanities Press, 1997).
Thomas Max Safley, Children of the Laboring Poor: Expectation and Experience among the Orphans of Early Modern Aussburg (Leiden: Brill, 2005).
Thomas Max Safley, The Reformation of Charity: The Secular and the Religious in Early Modern Poor Relief (Leiden: Brill, 2003).
Lee Palmer Wandel, Always Among Us: The Poor in Zwingli’s Zurich (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).

B) Print Culture
Roger Chartier, Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France, trans. Lydia Cochrane (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989).
Miriam U. Chrisman, Lay Culture, Learned Culture: Books and Social Shange in Strasbourg (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982).
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979).
Elizabeth Evenden, Religion and the Book in Early Modern England: The Making of Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Lucien Febvre and Martin, H-J. The Coming of the Book, trans. David Gerard (London: N.L.B., 1976).
John Frymire, The Primacy of the Postils: Catholics, Protestants, and the Dissemination of Ideas in Early Modern Germany (Leidon: Brill, 2010).
John D. Fudge, Commerce and Print in the Early Reformation (Leiden: Brill, 2007).
Jean François Gilmont, The Reformation and the Book (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997).
Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther: 1517, Printing, and the Making of the Reformation (New York: Penguin, 2015).
Robert W. Scribner, For the Sake of Simple Folk: Popular Propaganda for the German Reformation, 2d ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994).
Karen Spierling, Calvin and the Book: The Evolution of the Printed Word in Reformed Protestantism (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015).

C) Education
Amy Nelson Burnett, Teaching the Reformation: Ministers and their Message in Basel, 1529-1629 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Karen E. Carter, Creating Catholics: Catechism and Primary Education in Early Modern France (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011).
Howard Hotson, Commonplace Learning: Ramism and its German Ramifications, 1543-1630 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).
Andrew Pettegree, Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Gerald Strauss, Luther’s House of Learning: Indoctrination of the Young in the German Reformation (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978).

D) Coexistence
Duane J. Corpis, Crossing the Boundaries of Belief: Geographies of Religious Conversion in Southern Germany, 1648-1800 (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014)
Benjamin Kaplan, Calvinists and Libertines: Confession and Community in Utrecht, 1578-1620 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1995).
Benjamin Kaplan, Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Belknap, 2007).
Christine Kooi, Calvinists and Catholics during Holland's Golden Age: Heretics and Idolaters (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Christine Kooi, Liberty and Religion: Church and State in Leiden's Reformation, 1572-1620 (Leiden: Brill, 2000).
David M. Luebke, Hometown Religion: Regimes of Coexistence in Early Modern Westphalia (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016).
Keith Luria, Sacred Boundaries: Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early Modern France (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2005).
Maximilian Miguel Scholz, Strange Brethren: Refugees, Religious Bonds, and Reformation in Frankfurt (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021).
Jesse Spohnholz, The Tactics of Toleration: A Refugee Community in the Age of Religious Wars (New Ark: University of Delaware Press, 2011).
Wayne te Brake, Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Alexandra Walsham, Charitable Hatred: Tolerance and Intolerance in England, 1500-1700 (Birmingham: Manchester University Press, 2006).
Alexandra Walsahm, Church Papists: Catholicism, Conformity, and Confessional Polemic in Early Modern England (Rochester: Boydell, 1993).
Joachim Whaley, Religious Toleration and Social Change in Hamburg, 1529-1819 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).


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