Reformation Europe 1517 1559

Surveys the conditions and events of the period, and analyzes the personalities of Martin Luther and Charles 5th.

This is G.R. Elton's classic account of the Reformation, revealing the issues and preoccupations which seemed central to the age and portraying its leading figures with vigour and realism.

Covers the Lutheran, Calvinist, Zwinglian, and the Anabaptist reform movements as well as the English Reformation and Catholic response.

A competent Catholic scholar carries on an objective study of the determined efforts of the Catholic Church to reform itself, to stem the advances of Protestantism, and if possible to recover the lands lost to heresy in the earlier 16th century.

The first survey to utilise the approaches of the new cultural history in analysing how Reformation Europe came about.

For full description, see Renaissance Europe: Age of Recovery and Reconciliation, 2/e.