Includes bibliographical references (pages [408]-434) and index.
Contents
History, historiography, and interpretations of the Reformation -- The late Middle Ages: threshold and foothold of the Reformations -- The dawn of a new era -- Wait for no one: implementation of reforms in Wittenberg -- Fruits of the fig tree: social welfare and education -- The Reformation of the common man -- The Swiss connection: Zwingli and the Reformation in Zurich -- The sheep against the shepherds: the Radical Reformations -- Augsburg 1530 to Augsburg 1555: reforms and politics -- "The most perfect school of Christ": the Genevan Reformation -- Refuge in the shadow of God's wings: the Reformation in France -- The blood of the martyrs: the Reformation in the Netherlands -- The Reformations in England and Scotland -- Catholic renewal and the Counter-Reformation -- Legacies of the Reformations.