Editor's Foreword
1: Bruce Gordon: Late Medieval Christianity
2: Lyndal Roper: Martin Luther
3: Carlos Eire: Calvinism and the Reform of the Reformation
4: Brad S. Gregory: The Radical Reformation
5: Simon Ditchfield: Catholic Reformation and Renewal
6: Peter Marshall: Britain's Reformations
7: Alexandra Walsham: Reformation Legacies
Further Reading
Chronology
Picture Acknowledgements
Index
Peter Marshall was born and raised in the Orkney Islands, and
educated at Oxford University. Since 1994, he has taught at the
University of Warwick, and has been Professor of History there
since 2006. He is a specialist in the history of the Reformation,
particularly its impact in the British Isles, and has written seven
books and over fifty articles around these themes. He is a winner
of the Harold J. Grimm Prize for best article in Reformation
History. An
editorial board member of Sixteenth Century Journal, he is a
co-editor of English Historical Review. He also appears regularly
on TV and radio to discuss the Reformation and history of religion,
and is a
frequent reviewer for a range of periodicals, including the Times
Literary Supplement, Literary Review, and The Tablet. He is married
with three daughters, and lives in Leamington Spa.
...a scintillating state-of-the-art survey of the Reformation... a
marvellous collection of essays.
*Henry A. Jefferies, Iris h Historical Studies*
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation is a beautifully
presented single volume overview of the Reformation, including
sections devoted to its medieval background and contemporary
legacy. Its seven chapters, authored by leading reformation
scholars, are lavishly adorned with reproductions of books, maps,
paintings, statues, and relics that bring the text to life. The
book is learned, although unencumbered by footnotes, being
cognizant of the latest developments in reformation research, and
sometimes challenging them...the resulting work is informative,
readable, and authoritative.
*Benjamin B. Saunders, Reading Religion*
The illustrations are fascinating.
*Robert Tanitch, Mature Times*
Very well illustrated with vivid and relevant images.
*The Irish Catholic*
This is a fine book, beautifully produced, providing an easily
accessible distillation of some of the best recent scholarship of
the Reformation. A work of this kind is a vital resource for anyone
concerned to understand what ideas, events and convictions
compelled the sea changes in Christianity that took place in the
sixteenth century, and, no less important, to understand the
repercussions of these changes which are still felt today.
*Anne Dillon, Times Literary Supplement*
This short volume does a magnificent job in providing a birds eye
view of the Protestant Reformation, including appropriate maps. and
illustrations that grip the historical imagination.
*Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield, Huguenot Society
Journal*
This book does a fine job of unfolding the intricately decorated
and richly textured fabric of this extraordinary era... a
scintillating collection of essays that challenges conventional
views of the Reformation.
*Lucy Wooding, The Tablet*
Expert essays
*Theology, Diarmaird MacCulloch*
An outstanding work of church history
*Church of England Newspaper*
Splendid book
*Catholic Herald*
Compelling collection...Brilliantly assembled by Peter Marshall
*Literary Review, Paul Lay*
it bears comparison with the very best studies and compendia... a a
hearty 'bravo' is in order
*Herald, Jonathan Wright*
Wonderful... It's a huge achievement by Marshall, and by OUP, that
cleverly gets the ball rolling head of the 500th anniversary of
Luther's posting of his Ninety-five Theses
*Oxford Today*
This is a classic Illustrated Oxford History volume: its wealth of
pictures forms an instructive rather than merely decorative
complement to a text from some of the leading experts in the field,
who present a fine panorama of current thinking on this formative
era for the modern West.
*Diarmaid MacCulloch, University of Oxford, and author of A History
of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years*
An outstanding work of church history.
*Paul Richardson, Church of England Newspaper*
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