Table of Contents

List of Maps Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE; THE WARP: THREADS OF REFORMATION HISTORIES 1350-1650 The Late Medieval Crisis: 1348-1517 Resistance, Renewal and Reform: 1415-1521 Evangelical Movements and Confessions: 1521-1559 Reformation and Religious War: 1550-1650 PART TWO: THE WEFT: MAKING SENSE OF THE LONG EUROPEAN REFORMATION Settlements, 1600-1750: Church Building, State Building and Social Discipline Rereading the Reformation through Gender Analysis Conclusions Bibliography Index

About the Author

PETER G. WALLACE is Dewar Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York.

Reviews

'A skilful account of a long-term process of religious change that links the Middles Ages to the eighteeenth-century, and places religion in its multiple contexts.' - Dairmaid McCullough, Journal of Ecclesiastical History