Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650, (Paperback)

from stillatim

This is solid, but with so many options out there, I have high standards for general histories of the reformation(s). Eire's is good, particularly in setting the scene, and on Catholicism during the period. The chapters on the various Reformation churches were weaker, I thought, and the final sec...

from jeterat

A thorough book covering the history of both the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation. However, I thought towards the end, the book delved too deeply into tangential information (like the history of witch hunts in Europe), that could have been covered in another volume or n...

from mattries37315

Half a millennium after a lone monk began a theological dispute that eventually tore Western Christendom asunder both religiously and politically, does the event known as the Reformation still matter? In his book Reformations: The Early Modern Era, 1450-1650, Carlos M.N. Eire determined to examin...

from mattries37315

Half a millennium after a lone monk began a theological dispute that eventually tore Western Christendom asunder both religiously and politically, does the event known as the Reformation still matter? In his book Reformations: The Early Modern Era, 1450-1650, Carlos M.N. Eire determined to examin...