This beautifully illustrated book is the most ambitious onevolume survey ofthe Reformation yet. A timely and muchneeded account it looks at every aspectof the R... » 

This beautifully illustrated book is the most ambitious onevolume survey ofthe Reformation yet. A timely and muchneeded account it looks at every aspectof the Reformation world and considers new historical research which has led tothe expansion of the subject both thematically and geographically. The strengthof The Reformation World is its breadth and originality with material drawnfrom many different countries including archival material only recently madeavailable 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. «