Required Reading

a working list

Rice, Eugene F.; and Anthony Grafton. The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460–1559. Second Edition. 0-393-96304-7 / paper / W.W. Norton, 1994

Dunn, Richard S. The Age of Religious Wars, 1559–1715. Second Edition / 0-393-09021-3 / paper / W.W. Norton, 1979

De Lamar Jensen, Reformation Europe
Spitz, Lewis W. The Renaissance and Reformation Movements, 2 vols, 1971
Mortimer Chambers, Raymond Grew, et al., The Western Experience,Volume B, The Early Modern Era (McGraw Hill).
Theodore Rabb, The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe (Oxford)

Richard Marius, Martin Luther: The Christian Between God and Death
Parker, T. H. L. John Calvin: A Biography, 1975.
Heiko A. Oberman, Luther, Man between God and the Devil (Doubleday 1989).
William J. Bouwsma, John Calvin, A Sixteenth-Century Portrait (Oxford University Press 1988).
Manschreck, Clyde L. Melancthon: The Quiet Reformer, 1958.
Aland, Kurt. Four Reformers: Luther, Melancthon, Calvin, Zwingli, 1979.
Bainton, Roland. Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther, 1950.
Niesel Wilhelm. The Theology of Calvin, (tr. by Harold Knight) 1980. A more European analysis.
Potter, G. W. Zwingli, 1976.
Schwiebert, E. G. Luther and His Times, 1950.

A. G. Dickens, The Counter-Reformation
Richard Dunn, The Age of Religious Wars. 1559-1715 (second ed. Norton)
G.R. Elton, Reformation Europe, 1517-1559, London, 1963.
J.H. Elliott, Europe divided, 1559-1598, London, 1968.
Euan Cameron, The European Reformation, Oxford
Steven Ozment, The Reformation in the Cities
John Bossy, Christianity in the West, 1400-1700
Steven Ozment, The Age of Reform, 1250-1550 (Yale University Press 1981).
Roland Bainton, The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century.
G. R. Elton, ed., Renaissance and Reformation: 1300-1645.
Francis Oakley, The western church in the later middle ages, Ithaca, NY, 1979.
Dickens, A. G. The English Reformation, 1964.
James D. Tracy, Europe’s Reformations, Rowan and Littlefield, 1999
Hans J. Hillerbrand, The Protestant Reformation, Harper Collins 1968.

R. Po-chia Hsia, The Myth of Ritual Magic, Yale University Press, 1988
Michael G. Baylor (ed.), The Radical Reformation. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Lewis Spitz, The Reformation: Basic interpretations.
Althaus, Paul. The Theology of Martin Luther, 1966.
Bender, H. S. The Anabaptists and Religious Liberty in the Sixteenth Century, 1970.
Horst, Irwin B. The Radical Brethren: Anabaptism and the English Reformation to 1558, 1972.
Kendall, R. T. Calvin and English Calvinism to 1649, 1979.
Klaasen, Peter J. Europe in Reformation, 1979
Mueller, William A. Church and State in Luther and Calvin, 1954.
Spitz, Lewis W. The Religious Renaissance of the German Humanists, 1963.
Williams, George H. The Radical Reformation, 1962.
R. P-Chia Hsia, The World of Catholic Renewal 1540-1770, Cambridge
Alister E. McGrath, Reformation thought, an introduction, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1993.
Gerald Strauss, Luther's House of Learning
Thomas A. Brady, Protestant Politics
Robert W. Scribner, For the Sake of Simple Folk
Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms (Johns Hopkins).

Peter Burke, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe
Natalie Davis, Society and Culture in Early Modern Europe
Monica Chojnacka, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Ages of Woman, Ages of Man, Longman, 2002
Andrew Cunningham and Ole Peter Grell, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, War, Famine and Death in Reformation Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2000
Henry Kamen, European Society, 1500-1700