Product Description: The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed knowledge of the natural and physical world, and brought the thrill of book ownership to the masses. But, as Andrew Pettegree reveals in this work of great historical merit, the story of the post-Gutenberg world was rather more complicated than we have often come to believe...read more

Product Description: This collection of thirteen essays examines sixteenth-century type design in France. Typefaces developed during this period were to influence decisively the typography of the centuries which followed, and they continue to influence a great many contemporary typefaces...read more

Product Description: A complete short-title catalogue of all books published in the French language before 161. Based on twelve years of investigations in libraries in France and other countries, FB lists over 52, bibliographically distinct items in over 1,6 different libraries.

Product Description: A series of linked studies of European print culture of the sixteenth century, focusing particularly on France and the regional, provincial experience of print.

Tells the story of European politics, culture and society from prehistory. The first book covers the earliest civilization in Minoa in Crete to the fragmentation of the Roman Empire. The second book begins with the rise of the Emperor Charlemagne to dominate Western Europe and finishes with the artistic triumphs of the High Renaissance.

Tells the story of European politics, culture and society from prehistory. The first book covers the earliest civilization in Minoa in Crete to the fragmentation of the Roman Empire. The second book begins with the rise of the Emperor Charlemagne to dominate Western Europe and finishes with the artistic triumphs of the High Renaissance.

Product Description: Why did people choose the Reformation? What was in the evangelical teaching that excited, moved or persuaded them? Andrew Pettegree tackles these questions directly by re-examining the reasons that moved millions to this decisive and traumatic break with a shared Christian past...read more

Product Description: This collection reflects both the classic building blocks of Reformation history, such as the writings of Luther and Calvin, and also the new historiography which has emerged in recent years. The material is organized so as to explore the thematic complexities of this all-encompassing movement, whilst giving due weight to developments in different parts of Europe including France, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, England and Scotland...read more

This beautifully illustrated book is the most ambitious one-volume survey yet attempted of the Reformation. This timely and much-needed account 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 all over the world including the recent archive writings from 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; gender; and writing and printing.

Product Description: Assuming no prior knowledge of the period, this engaging narrative history introduces readers to the central features and main developments of sixteenth-century Europe. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The 16th-century French religious book project has many aspects, and many preoccupations, as the very varied papers that make up this collection make clear. At its core is the question that remains central to the concerns of all those who study Protestant and Catholic Reformations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Throughout the 16th century, political and intellectual developments in Britain and the Netherlands were intertwined, with a constant exchange of books, ideas, people and religious thought. This study explores the ramifications of these links. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This series of six linked essays covers one of the most traumatic episodes of English Protestantism - the period of the Catholic restoration under Mary Tudor. These studies argue that the Protestant tradition created during the brief reign of Edward VI in fact proved to be unexpectedly resilient...read more

Product Description: Calvinism was the most dynamic and disruptive religious force of the later sixteenth century. Its emergence on the international scene shattered the precarious equilibrium established during the Reformation, and precipitated three generations of religious warfare...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The clergy were central in the initial outbreak and direction of the Reformation. The Reformed Movement had gained much of its impetus from hostility towards the clerical estate and this intensity of feeling had a devastating effect on the clergy in the first decades of the evangelical movement...read more

Product Description: The Reformation was an international movement, but at the same time it achieved strikingly different levels of success in different parts of Europe. The Early Reformation in Europe explores these contrasts and comparisons through a series of specially commissioned essays by leading specialists in European history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work traces the emergence from the second half of the 16th century, of the new force of Calvinism, which offered the Reformation a "second wind" after the Evangelical movement had begun to flag. It covers the career of Calvin in Geneva and elsewhere, and the spread of Calvinism in Europe...read more

Product Description: The German town of Emden was, in the sixteenth century, the most important haven for exiled Dutch Protestants. In this book, based on unrivalled knowledge of the contemporary archives, Pettegree explores the role of Emden as a refuge, a training center and, above all, as the major source of Dutch Protestant propaganda...read more

Product Description: This study examines the impact of the first major influx of foreign refugees into Britain--the Protestant exiles of the Reformation era who came to escape persecution by the Catholic powers in France and the Low Countries. The refugees were generally well received by an English government that was aware of their economic potential...read more