The New Cambridge Modern History
The New Cambridge Modern History
Volume 2: The Reformation, 1520–1559
2nd Edition
G. R. Elton
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2. The Reformation, 1520–1559
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This is the second, amended and enlarged edition of a familiar standard work, first published in 1958. Like its predecessor, it describes the open conflicts of the Reformation from Luther's first challenge to the uneasy peace of the 1560's. Reforming movements in all the principal countries are discussed, against the background of constitutional development and the political struggles of the ruling dynasties. Europe's relations with the outside world are given due prominence. The second edition incorporates the results of some thirty years of further research and fills some of the gaps, especially in the history of central Europe, which beset the first edition. All chapters which remain from 1958 have been revised, some very substantially.
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9780521345361
752 pages
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1.17kg
Table of Contents
- Introduction to the second edition
- 1. The age of the reformation
- 2. Economic change
- 3. The reformation movements in Germany
- 4. The reformation in Zurich, Strassburg and Geneva
- 5. The anabaptists and the sects
- 6. The reformation in Scandinavia and the Baltic
- 7. Politics and the institutionalism of reform in Germany
- 8. Poland, Bohemia and Hungary
- 9. The reformation in France, 1515–59
- 10. The reformation in England
- 11. Italy and the papacy
- 12. The new orders
- 13. The empire of Charles V in Europe
- 14. The Habsburg–Valois wars
- 15. Intellectual tendencies
- 16. Schools and universities
- 17. Constitutional development and political thought in western Europe
- 18. Constitutional development and political thought in the Holy Roman Empire
- 19. Constitutional development and political thought in eastern Europe
- 20. Armies, navies and the art of war
- 21. The Ottoman empire, 1520–66
- 22. Russia, 1462–1584
- 23. The new world, 1521–80
- 24. Europe and the east
- Index.
