The European Reformations

Combining seamless synthesis of original material with updated scholarship, The European Reformations 2nd edition, provides the most comprehensive and engaging textbook available on the origins and impacts of Europe's Reformations - and the consequences that continue to resonate today. A fully revised and comprehensive edition of this popular introduction to the Reformations of the sixteenth centuryIncludes new sections on the Catholic Reformation, the Counter Reformation, the role of women, and the Reformation in BritainSets the origins of the movements in the context of late medieval social, economic and religious crises, carefully tracing its trajectories through the different religious groupsSucceeds in weaving together religion, politics, social forces, and the influential personalities of the time, in to one compelling storyProvides a variety of supplementary materials, including end-of-chapter suggestions for further reading, along with maps, illustrations, a glossary, and chronologies