Cover -- CONTENTS -- MAPS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PREFACE FOR THE THIRD EDITION -- INTRODUCTION -- Thinking Historically -- Historical Accounts of the Reformation -- Framing this Text -- Ancient Christianities: The Templates for the True Church -- Medieval Christendom: Christian Empire and Papal Monarchy -- Part I THE WARP: THREADS OF REFORMATION HISTORIES,1350-1650 -- 1 THE LATE-MEDIEVAL CRISIS, 1347-1517 -- The Late-Medieval Crisis -- The Late-Medieval Church -- The Avignonese Papacy -- The Great Schism and the Council of Constance -- Renaissance Papacy and the Failure of Conciliarism -- 2 RESISTANCE, RENEWAL AND REFORM, 1414-1521 -- Dissent, Reform and Heresy in the Middle Ages -- Jan Hus and the Hussite Movement -- Popular Piety and Reform -- Humanism, Renaissance and Reformation -- Fifteenth-Century Monarchs and Their Churches -- Luther as Reformer -- 3 EVANGELICAL MOVEMENTS AND CONFESSIONS, 1521-59 -- Reform at Wittenberg and the Spread of the Evangelical Movement -- Reformation Contested: The Rural World and the Peasants' War of 1524-6 -- The Reformation Negotiated: Urban Reformations -- Zwingli and the Swiss Reformation -- Reformation Secured from Above: The Protestant Political Community -- Reforms and Evangelical Movements in Northern and Eastern Europe -- Early Reform Movements in France and Geneva -- Royal Reformation in England and Ireland -- Catholic Continuities, Catholic Reforms, Catholic Counter-Reforms -- Imperial Politics and the Course of Reform -- 4 REFORMATION AND RELIGIOUS WAR, 1550-1650 -- The Price Revolution and Economic Crisis -- Catholicism: Renewal, Reform and Counter-Reform -- French Wars of Religion -- Elizabethan Church Settlement and Religious Wars in Britain -- Revolt and Reformation in the Netherlands -- The Struggle for Religious Peace in the Holy Roman Empire -- Protestantism in Northern and Eastern Europe
The Thirty Years' War -- Part II THE WEFT: MAKING SENSE OF THE LONG EUROPEAN REFORMATION -- 5 SETTLEMENTS, 1600-1750: CHURCH BUILDING, STATE BUILDING AND SOCIAL DISCIPLINE -- Society in Post-Westphalian Europe -- Europe's Post-Westphalian Political Order -- Religion in the Century after Westphalia -- Confessionalization and Regimes of Coexistence -- Science, Natural Philosophy and Religion -- Enlightenment, Rational Christianity and Tolerance -- 6 REREADING THE REFORMATION THROUGH GENDER ANALYSIS -- Biblical, Classical and Medieval Legacies -- Women, Gender and the Reformation -- Witchcraft and Witch-Hunting -- 7 THE EUROPEAN REFORMATION AND ISLAM: FROM MENANCE TO COEXISTENCE -- The Ottoman Turks and Christian Europe -- The Reformation and the 'Turkish Menace' -- Religious Minorities: Moriscos in Spain and Christians in Hungary -- 8 THE EUROPEAN REFORMATION IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE -- Afro-Eurasia and the Americas in the Late Fifteenth Century -- The Spread of European Power across the Globe -- Catholic Missions and Global Catholicism -- Protestant Diaspora and Early Missionary Work -- Christianity and Slavery: A Brief Reflection -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- TIMELINE -- GLOSSARY -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
