Table of Contents

Introduction: Paradigms for the Conception of a Better World.
Part 1: Visions of Reform.
Gerald Strauss, 'Ideas of Renovatio in Late Medieval Thought.'
Constantin Fasolt, 'Visions of Order in the Canonists and Civilians.'
Erika Rummel, 'Voices of Reform from Hus to Erasmus.'
Ronald G. Witt, 'The Humanist Movement.'
Part 2: Programs for Change.
Martin Brecht, 'Luther's Reformation.'
Peter Blickle, 'The Popular Reformation.'
Berndt Hamm, 'The Reformed Reformation: Urban Phase.'
Robert Kingdon, 'The Reformed Reformation: International Phase.'
James M. Stayer, 'The Radical Reformation.'
John Patrick Donnelly, 'Catholic Reformation: The New Orders.'
Elisabeth Gleason, 'Catholic Reformation: Papal Reform.'
Part 3: Outcomes.
Heiko A. Oberman, 'Settlements: The Empire.'
Nicolette Mout and Juliaan Woltjer, 'Settlements: The Netherlands.'
Philip Benedict, 'Settlements: France.'
Ian Hazlett, 'Settlements: The British Kingdom.'
Christian Hermann, 'Settlements: Iberia.'
Michael Metcalf, 'Settlements: Scandinavia.'
Winfried Eberhard, 'Settlements: Eastern Europe.'
Hans-Christoph Rublack, 'New Patterns of Christian Life.'
Lyndal Roper, 'The Reformation, the Family and the Sexes.'
Brian Levack, 'The Witch Panic.'
Heinz Schilling, 'Confessional Europe: Bureaucrats, La Bonne Police, Civilizations.'
Conclusion: Elites, Princes, and Reformers - Congruent and Conflicting Strategies and Aims.

About the Author

Thomas A. Brady, Jr. has taught at the University of Oregon, where he was President's Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, and he now teaches European history at the University of California, Berkeley. His writings include Ruling Class, Regime, and Reformation at Strasbourg, 1520-1550 (1978), Turning Swiss: Cities and Empire, 1450-1550 (1985), and Protestant Politics: Jacob Sturm (1498-1553) and the German Reformation (1993).
Heiko A. Oberman, formerly of Harvard University and the University of Tübingen, is now Regents Professor of History and Director of the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies at the University of Arizona. He is best known for The Harvest of Medieval Theology (1963), Masters of the Reformation (German, 1977), The Roots of Anti-Semitism (German, 1981), and Luther: Man between God and the Devil (English, 1992).
James D. Tracy has been a member of the History Department at the University of Minnesota since 1966. His major publications are Erasmus: the Growth of a Mind (1972); The Politics of Erasmus: a Pacifist Intellectual and his Political Milieu (1978); A Financial Revolution in the Habsburg Netherlands: "Renten" and "Renteniers" in the County of Holland, 1506-1565 (1985); and Holland under Habsburg Rule: the Formation of a Body Politic (1990).

Reviews

'Ein hist. Handbuch, das nicht nur lesbar ist, sondern zum Durchlesen verführt, gehört gewiß zu den Seltenheiten. Die anregende Qualität dieses Handbuchs beruht auf der Kompetenz der Autoren...'
Hans-Christoph Rublack, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, 1994.
'...an extremely useful survey of current research, clearly and succinctly presented...A "must purchase" for established scholars, graduate students, and libraries!!'
Caroline Walker Bynum.
'Like volume 1, this volume may be highly recommended. Its 21 contributors provide brief, up-to-date, usefule summaries of their assigned fields, as well as excellent bibliographies.'
P.L. Kintner, Choice, 1996.