Preface

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Part one. On the Edge
5. Prelude: Rome, 1450 1
6. One. An Age of Breakthroughs 3
7. Two. Religion in Late Medieval Christendom 19
8. Three. Reform and Dissent in the Late Middle Ages 43
9. Four. Italian Humanism 64
10. Five. Humanism Beyond Italy 86
11. Six. Forerunners of the Catholic Reformation 114
12. Part two. Protestants
13. Prelude: Rome, 1510 131
14. Seven. Luther: From Student to Monk 133
15. Eight. Luther: From Rebel to Heretic 158
16. Nine. Luther: The Reactionary 185
17. Ten. The Swiss Reformation 218
18. Eleven. The Radical Reformation 248
19. Twelve. Calvin and Calvinism 286
20. Thirteen. England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, 1521–1603 318
21. Part three. Catholics
22. Prelude: Rome, 1564 367
23. Fourteen. Catholic Reform: Facing the Challenge 369
24. Fifteen. Catholic Reform: Healing the Body of Christ 389
25. Sixteen. Catholic Reform: Fashioning a New Clergy 414
26. Seventeen. Catholic Reform: The Society of Jesus 442
27. Eighteen. Missions to the New World 466
28. Nineteen. Missions to the East Indies 498
29. Part four. Consequences
30. Prelude: Rome, 1626 523
31. Twenty. The Age of Religious Wars 525
32. Twenty-one. The Age of Orthodoxy 562
33. Twenty-two. The Confessional Age 586
34. Twenty-three. The Age of Devils 618
35. Twenty-four. The Age of Reasonable Doubt 660
36. Twenty-five. The Age of Outcomes 691
37. Twenty-six. The Spirit of the Age 719
38. Epilogue. Assessing the Reformations 741
39. Notes 759
40. Bibliography 783
41. Illustration Credits 857
42. Index 867