Carlos M. N. Eire is the T. L. Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies, Yale University. He is the author of several scholarly books and two memoirs, including Waiting for Snow in Havana, for which he received the National Book Award.
“Eire’s vast learning is on display throughout this enormous (and
handsomely illustrated) work.”—Michael Massing, New York Times Book
Review
“Monumental”—Charlotte Methuen, Times Literary Supplement
“Reformations is a massive study of early modern Europe, both
Protestant and Catholic. It is a volume worth perusing carefully,
both to think with and to learn from.”—Prof. Benjamin M. Guyer,
Reviews in History
“Reformations is a major milestone in the field of Reformation
studies that will inspire discussion and debates.”—R. Po-chia Hsia,
Journal of Jesuit Studies
“A remarkable achievement. [Eire] takes immense pains to give an
even-handed account of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations. .
. This massive and remarkable book presents convincing
evidence.”—Anthony Kenny, Literary Review
“This is a huge book but don’t be put off by its size. It more than
lives up to Eire’s promise in his preface of being an introduction
and survey for beginners and non-specialists. . . Eire’s prose is
transparent, elegant and witty, his narrative enlivened by
sparkling insights and one-liners.”—Anne Dillon, Tablet
“Fascinating reading. The author is a gifted writer who
particularly excels at the ability to expound theological ideas. If
you read only one book about the Reformation in the year of
its 500th anniversary, this is probably the one to choose.”—Paul
Richardson, Church of England Newspaper
“[Reformations] provides a readable and stimulating overview of
European history between 1450 and 1650 (and often well into the
18th century) that is accessible to newcomers to the discipline,
while being sufficiently broad and well-researched to be useful to
specialists in early modern history who wish to know more about
aspects of the period outside of their area of expertise.”—Sam
Kennerley, Reviews in History
“This is certainly a good read . . . this enormous survey is well
worth reading for its insights and some shrewd assessments.”—Dr. G.
R. Evans, Church Times
“Carlos Eire’s massive, ambitious new survey navigates the
rollercoaster of the Reformation period with all the drama and
verve of the ages itself, using these developments as a lens
through which to understand early modern Europe as a whole.”—David
Gehring, History Today
Winner of the 2017 American Publishers Awards for Professional &
Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in the European & World History
category.
Winner of the 2017 American Publishers Awards for Professional &
Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in the Excellence in Humanities
category.
Winner of the 2017 R.R. Hawkins Award given by the American
Publishers Awards for Professional & Scholarly Excellence
(PROSE).
Carlos Eire’s Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650is the
second winner of the The Pelikan Award, a biannual prize awarded by
Yale University Press to a distinguished book on religion published
by the Press in the previous two years.
“Carlos Eire’s Reformations is a work of remarkable scope and
ambition, a magnificent sweep through four centuries, and as many
continents, tracing in original and perceptive ways the
unforeseeable consequences—in religion, politics, culture,
science—of the convulsions that started in western Christianity at
the close of the Middle Ages. Eire writes with insight and empathy
about the values and visions of a fervent and often violent age. He
does not shield us from the strangeness and complexity of the past,
but we come away with a much enhanced understanding of the lines
connecting it to our present.”—Peter Marshall, University of
Warwick
“An ambitious and highly successful project. Wonderfully balanced
and nicely nuanced, the book is a genuine tour de force in bringing
together the various elements of the Reformations, from their
meaning for the educated and sophisticated proponents (and
opponents) to their reception (or rejection) by the mass of
ordinary and unlettered persons who ‘lived’ amid the swirl of
religious change.”—Raymond Mentzer, University of Iowa
“Carlos Eire contributes to our understanding of the Reformations
as Europe-wide phenomena, highlights the diversity of
Protestantism, and shows how vibrant Catholic reform could
be.”—Kathryn A. Edwards, University of South Carolina
“It takes an unusually perceptive, judicious, knowledgeable, and
yes brave person to write a book this big and sweeping, given all
the ink spelled and trees felled and terabytes devoted to the
Reformation, and Carlos Eire is all of those. It is beautifully
structured, gracefully written, evenhanded in its treatment of
Catholic, Protestant, and Radical movements, and most importantly
equally at home in the Reformation and the present. Read this and
you will understand both worlds better.”—Craig Harline, Author of
Conversions: Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern
America
Winner of the 2017 American Publishers Awards for Professional &
Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in the European & World History
category.
*PROSE*
Winner of the 2017 American Publishers Awards for Professional &
Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in the Excellence in Humanities
category.
*PROSE*
Winner of the 2017 R.R. Hawkins Award given by the American
Publishers Awards for Professional & Scholarly Excellence
(PROSE).
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