The Reformation World

Routledge Worlds

by Andrew Pettegree (Editor)

This beautifully illustrated book is the most ambitious one-volume survey of the Reformation yet. A timely and much-needed account, it looks at every aspect of the Reformation world and considers new historical research which has led to the expansion of the subject both thematically and geographically. The strength of The Reformation World is its breadth and originality, with material drawn from many different countries, including archival material only recently made available to scholars in central Europe.

Topics included are:

* the Church before the Reformation
* Luther and Germany
* the Reformation outside Germany
* Calvinism and the Second Reformation
* the Reformation and society
* arts and architecture
* the printed book and visual media.

Genres: History, Religion, Theology, Nonfiction

596 pages, Paperback

First published January 27, 2000

About the author

I began my career working on aspects of the European Reformation. My first book was a study of religious refugee communities in the sixteenth century, and since then I have published on the Dutch Revolt, and on the Reformation in Germany, France and England, as well as a general survey history of the sixteenth century. In the last years the focus of my research has shifted towards an interest in the history of communication, and especially the history of the book. I run a research group that in 2011 completed a survey of all books published before1601: the Universal Short Title Catalogue. This work continues with work to incorporate new discoveries and continue the survey into the seventeenth century.

In 2010 I published an award-winning study of The Book in the Renaissance, and in 2014 The Invention of News: a study of the birth of a commercial culture of news publication in the four centuries between 1400 and 1800. I return to the Reformation for a study of Luther’s media strategy, published in 2015 by Penguin as Brand Luther, 1517, Printing and the Making of the Reformation. I am now engaged in a study of the book world of the seventeenth century Dutch Republic, to be published in 2019 as Trading Books in the Age of Rembrandt.

I am the lead editor of two monograph series: the St Andrews Studies in Reformation History, and The Library of the Written Word. In 2012-2015 I served a three year term as Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society.

I welcome enquiries from potential postgraduate students working on any aspect of the Reformation or Book History.

Reviews

[Ben Mizrahi · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very survey of the Reformation in various lands, and, in part III, also of the intersection between the Reformation and other aspects of daily life in Early Modern Europe.

One complaint I do have, is that of the chapters where not more detailed, to the point it harmed the reader's understanding of the event (a case in point would be the chapter about Scotland. One can get the impression that, the Scottish pre-reformation church was weak, so there was no need for a reform at all, and the first Protestants were seen as basically agents of England, and then suddenly in 1560, bam, reform, like, what? Stop for a second, what exactly happened suddenly?).

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