Table of Contents

List of Maps
Acknowledgements
Introduction

I. Reform and Enthusiasm
II. The Piety of the Alumbrados of Toledo
III. Tradition and Discussion
IV. The First Arrests
V. The Alumbrados Between Two Heresies
VI. Humanism Attacked
VII. The Fear of Novelty
VIII. The Alumbrados of Llerena and Seville

Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
Index

About the Author

Alastair Hamilton was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. Formerly Professor of English at the University of Urbino, he is now Professor of Radical Reformation History at the University of Amsterdam and The C.L. Thijsen-Schoute Professor of the History of Ideas at the University of Leiden. His numerous published works in Britain and abroad include articles on Spanish, English and Dutch ecclesiastical history as well as several major books on a diversity of historical subjects.