Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• List of Illustrations and Maps
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• PART I A COMMON CULTURE
• 1 THE OLD CHURCH, 1490-1517
• Seeing Salvation in Church
• The First Pillar: The Mass and Purgatory
• Layfolk at Prayer
• The Second Pillar: Papal Primacy
• A Pillar Cracks: Politics and Papacy
• Church Versus Commonwealth?
• 2 HOPES AND FEARS, 1490-1517
• Shifting Boundaries
• The Iberian Exception
• The Iberian Achievement: The Western Church Exported
• New Possibilites: Paper and Printing
• Humanism: A New World from Books
• Putting Renewal into Practice
• Reform on the Last Day?
• Erasmus: Hopes Fulfilled, Fears Stilled?
• 3 NEW HEAVEN: NEW EARTH, 1517-24
• The Shadow of Augustine
• Luther, a Good Monk: 1483-1517
• An Accidental Revolution: 1517-21
• Whose Revolution? 1521-2
• Evangelical Challenges: Zwingli and Radicalism 1521-2
• Zurich and Wittenberg, 1522-4
• The Years of Carnival, 1521-4
• 4 WOOING THE MAGISTRATE, 1524-40
• Europe's Greatest Rebellion: 1524-5
• Princely Churches or Christian Separation: 1525-30
• The Birth of Protestantisms: 1529-33
• Strassburg: New Rome or New Jerusalem?
• Kings and Reformers, 1530-40
• A New King David? Munster and Its Aftermath
• 5 REUNION DEFERRED: CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT, 1530-60
• A Southern Revival
• Ignatius Loyola and the Early Jesuits
• Hopes for a Deal: The 1541-2 Crisis
• A Council at Trent: The First Session, 1545-9
• Calvin in Geneva: The Reformed Answer to Munster
• Calvin and the Eucharist: Protestant Division Confirmed
• Reformed Protestantism: Alternatives to Calvin, 1540-60
• 6 REUNION SCORNED, 1547-70
• Crisis for the Habsburgs, 1547-55
• 1555: An Emperor Exhaustion, a Pope's Obsession
• A Catholic Recovery: England 1553-8
• 1558-9 Turning-points for Dynasties
• The Last Session of the Council of Trent, 1561-3
• Protestants in Arms: France and the Low Countries, 1562-70
• PART II EUROPE DIVIDED: 1570-1619
• 7 THE NEW EUROPE DEFINED: 1569-72
• Northern and Southern Religion
• Tridentine Successes
• The Catholic Defence of Christendom, 1565-71
• Militant Northern Protestants, 1569-72
• The Massacre of St Bartholomew, 1572
• Poland 1569-76: An Alternative Future?
• Protestantism and Providence
• 8 THE NORTH: PROTESTANT HEARTLANDS
• Defining Lutheranism: Towards the Formula of Concord
• The 'Second Reformation' in Germany
• Baltic Religious Contests: Poland-Lithuania and Scandinavia
• The Northern Netherlands: Protestant Victory
• The Northern Netherlands: The Arminian Crisis
• A Reformed Success: Scotland
• Elizabethan England: A Reformed Church?
• Ireland: The Coming of the Counter-Reformation
• 9 THE SOUTH: CATHOLIC HEARTLANDS
• Italy: The Counter-reformation's Heart
• Spain and Portugal: King Philip's Church
• The Counter-Reformation as World Mission
• 10 CENTRAL EUROPE: RELIGION CONTESTED
• The Empire and Habsburg Lands: A Shattered Church
• Habsburgs, Wittelsbachs and a Catholic Recovery
• Transylvania: A Reformed Israel
• France: Collapse of a Kingdome, 1572-98
• France: A Late Counter-Reformation
• 11 1618-48: DECISION AND DESTRUCTION
• 12 CODA: A BRITISH LEGACY, 1600-1700
• New English Beginnings: Richard Hooker and Lancelot Andrewes
• Early Stuart England: The Church's Golden Age?
• War in Three Kingdoms, 1638-60
• A Spectrum of Protestantisms, 1660-1700
• American Beginnings
• PART III PATTERNS OF LIFE
• 13 CHANGING TIMES
• Time Ending
• Hearing God's Voice
• Fighting Antichrist: Idols
• Fighting Antichrist: Witches
• 14 DEATH, LIFE AND DISCIPLINE
• Negotiations with Death and Magic
• Telling out the Word
• Godly Discipline
• A Spirit of Protestantism?
• 15 LOVE AND SEX: STAYING THE SAME
• A Common Legacy
• The Family in Society
• The Fear of Sodomy
• 16 LOVE AND SEX: MOVING ON
• The 'Reformation of Manners'
• Catholicism, the Family and Celibacy
• Protestantism and the Family
• Choices in Religion
• 17 OUTCOMES
• Wars of Reformation
• Tolerating Difference
• Cross-currents: Humanism and Natural Philosophy
• Cross-currents: Judaism and Doubts
• The Enlightenment and Beyond
• Appendix of Texts: Creeds, Lord's Prayer, Ten Commandments and Hail Mary
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Index