Reformation & Puritan History

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Order of Contents

General History  6
Eve of Reformation  6
Erasmus
Reformation Histories
Specific Nations:
.     Germany
.     Netherlands
.     England
.     Ireland
.     Italy
.     Spain
.     France
.     Switzerland
.     Eastern Europe

Special Topics
Historical Theology
Political Thought
Art
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
Primary Sources
Guide & Companions
Latin
Biblios

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General History

The Cambridge Modern History, vols. 2 (Reformation), 3 (Religious Wars), 4 (30 Years War), 5 (Age of Louis XIV)  (1907)  Index

The New Cambridge Modern History, vol. 2, (Reformation), 3 (Counter-Reformation), 4 (30 Years War), 5 (France), 6 (1688-1715)  (1990)

ed. Dewald, Jonathan – Europe 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, 6 vols.  Buy  (2004)

ed. Brady, Oberman & Tracy – Handbook of European History, 1400-1600, 2 vols.  Buy  (1996)

ed. Scott, Hamish – The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern History, 1350-1750, 2 vols.  Buy  (2015)

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Maps

The Cambridge Modern History Atlas  (1912)  720 pp.

History of the World: Map by Map

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Articles

Miller, Samuel – An Introductory Essay to: An Essay on the Spirit & Influence of the Reformation  (1833)  12 pp.

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Eve of the Reformation

Ullmann, C. – The Reformers Before the Reformation, Principally in Germany and the Netherlands, vol. 1, 2  1863

Maynard Smith, H. – Pre-Reformation England  Buy  1938  556 pp.

Hodgson, William – The Lives, Sentiments and Sufferings of Some of the Reformers and Martyrs Before, Since and Independent of the Lutheran Reformation  1867  465 pp.

trans. Malcom – Old German Theology a Hundred Years before the Reformation  with a preface by Martin Luther  1854  185 pp.  This is a primary source document

Jackson, Samuel – Huldreich Zwingli, the Reformer of German Switzerland, 1484-1531, with an Historical Survey of Switzerland before the Reformation, and a chapter on Zwingli’s Theology  1903  630 pp.

Gasquet, Abbot – The Eve of the Reformation: Studies in Religious Life and Thought of the English People in the Period Preceding the Rejection of the Roman Jurisdiction by Henry VIII  1905  415 pp.

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Erasmus

1800’s

Emerton, Ephraim – Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam  1899  575 pp.

Froude, J.A. – Life and Letters of Erasmus: Lectures  1894  435 pp.

Froude was an Oxford professor of modern history.

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1900’s

Allen, P.S. – The Age of Erasmus  1914  300 pp.

Murray, Robert – Erasmus and Luther: their Attitude to Toleration  1920  530 pp.

Phillips, M.M. – Erasmus and the Northern Renaissance  Buy  1950  236 pp.

Huizinga, J. – Erasmus of Rotterdam with a Selection from the Letters of Erasmus  1957  305 pp.

Taylor, Henry Osborn – Erasmus and Luther  1962  Book 2 of Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century

ed. Bietenholz, Peter & Thomas Deutscher – Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation, 3 vols.  Buy  1985-7

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Short & Medium Histories of the Reformation

1800’s

Tulloch, John – Leaders of the Reformation: Luther, Calvin, Latimer, Knox, the Representative Men of Germany, France, England and Scotland  1860  300 pp.

Carter, Thomas – History of the Great Reformation in England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, France and Italy  1860  370 pp.

Lindsay, Thomas – The Reformation  1882  230 pp.  in Handbooks for Bible Classes

Bettany, G.T. – A Popular History of the Reformation and Modern Protestantism  1895  555 pp.

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1900’s

Whitney, James Pounder – The Reformation, being an Outline of the History of the Church from 1503-1648  1907  505 pp.

“Fuller than others on Trent.” – Owen Chadwick

Green, V.H.H. – Renaissance & Reformation  Buy  (1952)  462 pp.

Bainton, Roland

The Age of the Reformation  (1956)  198 pp.

The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century  (1952)  300 pp.

Sykes, Norman – The Crisis of the Reformation  125 pp.  1958

Leonard, Emile G. – A History of Protestantism  (1968)  490 pp.

Leonard (1891-1961) was a French historian who for a time taught at the Free Faculty of Reformed Theology of Aix-en-Provence.

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Large Histories of the Reformation

1800’s

D’Aubigne, Merle – History of the Great Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in Germany, Switzerland, etc.  1846  4 vols. in 1

Wylie, J.A. – The History of Protestantism, vol. 1, 2, 3

Wylie was of the Free Church of Scotland.  This is a classic, vigorous defense of Protestantism.

Lindsay, Thomas – A History of the Reformation, vol. 1, 2  1908  in International Theological Library

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1900’s

Smith, Preserved – The Age of the Reformation  1920  870 pp.

“An excellent one-volume study.” – Owen Chadwick

Grimm, Harold – The Reformation Era, 1500-1650  1956  660 pp.

“Sober and up to date.” – Owen Chadwick

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Literature

chs. 5-7 of The Cambridge History of English Literature, vol. 7, ‘Cavalier & Puritan’  (1911)

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Missions

Warneck, Gustav – Outline of a History of Protestant Missions from the Reformation to the Present Time, with an Appendix concerning Roman Catholic Missions  1906  480 pp.

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Romanism

Creighton, Mandell – A History of the Papacy During the Reformation, vol. 1 (1378-1418), 2 (1418-1464), 3 (1464-1518), 4 (1464-1518), 5 (1517-1527)  (1882)

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The Jesuits

McCabe, Joseph – A Candid History of the Jesuits  1913  465 pp.

Campbell, Thomas J. – The Jesuits: 1534-1931, vol. 1, 2  1921  505 pp.

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The Counter Reformation

Janelle, Pierre – The Catholic Reformation  1949  425 pp.

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The Council of Trent

Froude, James – Lectures on the Council of Trent  (1896)  335 pp.

Froude was an Oxford professor of modern history.

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From a Romanist Perspective

Belloc, Hilaire

How the Reformation Happened  Buy  (1950)  180 pp.

Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian.

Characters of the Reformation  (1955)  215 pp.

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Radicals

Kautsky, Karl – Communism in Central Europe in the Time of the Reformation  1897  305 pp.

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Bibliography

Williams, George – ‘Studies in the Radical Reformation (1517-1618): A Bibliographical Survey of Research since 1939’ & ‘(Continued)’  in Church History, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Mar., 1958), pp. 46-69 & Vol. 27, No. 2 (Jun., 1958), pp. 124-60

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The Spirit & Significance of the Reformation

Various – The Sure Word of Prophecy: Sermons & Addresses on the Reformation & the Lutheran Church  1908  160 pp.

Schmucker, S.S. – Discourse in Commemoration of the Glorious Reformation of the Sixteenth Century  (1838)  130 pp.

Villers, Charles – An Essay on the Spirit and Influence of the Reformation of Luther  (1805)  407 pp.

Hough, Lynn – The Significance of the Protestant Reformation: a Series of Lectures  (1918)  105 pp.

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Thought of the Era

Taylor, Henry – Thought & Expression in the Sixteenth Century, vol. 1, 2  (1920)

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Special Topics

ed. Kingdon, Robert – Transition & Revolution: Problems & Issues of European Renaissance & Reformation History  (Minneapolis: Burgess Pub. Co., 1974)

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Historical Theology of the Reformation

trans. Malcom – Old German Theology a Hundred Years before the Reformation  with a preface by Martin Luther  1854  185 pp.  This is a primary source document

Cunningham, William – The Reformers and the Theology of the Reformation  Buy  1862  608 pp.

Here Cunningham is at his best, church history and the principles of the Reformation being his life’s work.

McCormack, Bruce – For Us & Our Salvation: Incarnation & Atonement in the Reformed Tradition  (1993)  48 pp.

McCormack surveys Calvin, Bullinger and Ursinus on the topic, though unfortunately finds the solution to his theological questions in the very highly, NOT-recommended, theology of Karl Barth, the founder of Neo-Orthodoxy.

Muller, Gerhard – Protestant Theology in Scotland and Germany in the Early Days of the Reformation  1978/1985  15 pp.

Krauth, Charles P. – The Conservative Reformation & its Theology: as Represented in the Augsburg Confession & in the History & Literature of the Evangelical Lutheran Church  (1872)  855 pp.

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Political Thought

Allen, J.W. – History of Political Thought in the 16th Century  (1951)  520 pp.

Zagorin, Perez – A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution  (1997)  215 pp.

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History & Character of Calvinism

McNeill, J.T. – The History & Character of Calvinism  Buy  (1954)  480 pp.  Also helpful for Zwingli

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Architecture

Randall, Katharine – Philibert De L’Orme, Protestantism and Architecture: Peculiarities of Style  1993  75 pp.

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Art

Coulton, G.G. – Art & the Reformation  (Cambridge, 1923)  680 pp.

Christensen, Carl – Art & the Reformation in Germany  (1979)  280 pp.

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Encyclopedias

ed. Bietenholz, Peter & Thomas Deutscher – Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation, 3 vols.  Buy  1985-7

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, 4 vols.  Buy  1996

ed. Lamport, Mark – Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation  Buy  2017  1,000 pp.

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Dictionaries

ed. Steimer, Bruno – Dictionary of the Reformation  Buy  (2004)  384 pp.  Encyclopedia of Theology & Church

Mullett, Michael – Historical Dictionary of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation  Buy  (2010)  594 pp.  Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies & Movements

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Primary Sources

Original Languages

The fullest set of Corpus Reformatorum online.

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In English

Kidd, B.J. – Documents Illustrative of the Continental Reformation  (1911)  760 pp.  About half of the documents or so are in non-English languages.

Kidd was an Anglican.

The Library of Christian Classics, vols. 14-26  Buy  Westminster John Knox Press  This is a liberal publisher, but an honest and standard series.

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Creeds & Confessions

ed. Dennison, 4 vols.

ed. Lumpkin, W.L. – Baptist Confessions of Faith  Buy  (1959)  548 pp.  This contains the largest collection of anabaptist historical confessions that is easily available.

ed. Schaff, Philip – The Creeds of Christendom, vol. 3: The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches  1877  935 pp.  For historical background on these creeds, see vol. 1, chs. 5-8.

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Anabaptists

Stayer, James – Ch. 5, ‘The Anabaptists and the Sects’  in The New Cambridge Modern History  (1990 / 2004)

Newcomb, Harvey – The Anabaptists: being an account of the progress of the Reformation in Germany, from the Diet of Worms to the death of Frederic, Elector of Saxony, comprising a history of the Anabaptists or Mennonites, , with remarks on Fanaticism, Riots, War, Oaths, Baptism, the Sabbath, and other Subjects  (1836)  225 pp.

Payne, Ernest – The Anabaptists of the Sixteenth Century & their Influence in the Modern World  (1949)  17 pp.

Smeeton, Donald – ‘Calvin’s Conflict with the Anabaptists’  (1980)  9 pp.

Littell, Franklin – The Anabaptist View of the Church: a Study in the Origins of Sectarian Protestantism  (1958)

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Confessions of Anabaptists

ed. Lumpkin, W.L. – Baptist Confessions of Faith  Buy  (1959)  548 pp.  This contains the largest collection of anabaptist historical confessions that is easily available.

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Guide to Research & Companions to Reformation History

Greengrass, Mark – The Longman Companion to the European Reformation, c.1500-1618  (London: Longman, 1998)  405 pp.  ToC

ed. Hsia, R. Po-chia – A Companion to the Reformation World  (Blackwell Publishing, 2004)  585 pp.  ToC

ed. Whitford, David M. – Reformation & Early Modern Europe: a Guide to Research  in Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies 79  (Truman State Univ. Press, 2008)  465 pp.  ToC

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Latin Articles

1600’s

Voet, Gisbert

Syllabus of Theological Problems  (Utrecht, 1643), pt. 1, section 2, tract 4   Abbr.

Of the 3rd Age
Of Recent Times, from Luther, in General
Of the Ancient, Protestant German Church, unto the Schism through the Book of Concord
Of the Anglican Church
Of the Swiss, French, Scottish, Belgic, Polish, Bohemian, Hungarian, Transylvanian & Numerous German Churches
The Modern Churches Beyond: the Western, Greek, of Moscow, Armenia, Egypt, Iberia, Syria, Jacobite, of Georgia, Ethiopia & the Indies

Ecclesiastical Politics  (Amsterdam: Waesberge, 1663), vol. 4, pt. 3, bk. 3, Of the Government of the Church with Respect to a State of Turbulence, Tract 1, Of the Dispersion and Regathering of the Church

9. Of the Reformation Having Been Started in the Years 1516 & 1517 by Luther and Zwingli  479

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Bibliographies

Bainton, Roland – Bibliography of the Continental Reformation: Materials Available in English  Buy  (1935; rev. 1972)

Anderson, Marvin Walter – Peter Martyr: A Reformer in Exile (1542-1562). A Chronology of Biblical Writings in England and Europe  Buy  (1975)

ed. Baker, Derek – The Bibliography of the Reform, 1450-1648, Relating to the United Kingdom and Ireland for the Years 1955-1970  Buy  (1975)

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On Martin Luther

Bigane, John – Annotated Bibliography of Luther Studies, 1967-1977  Buy  Sixteenth Century Bibliography

Hagen, Kenneth & Franz Possett – Annotated Bibliography of Luther Studies, 1977-1983  Buy  Sixteenth Century Bibliography

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