This volume brings together 29 new essays by leading international scholars, to provide an inclusive overview of recent work in Reformation history.

• Presents Catholic Renewal as a continuum of the Protestant Reformation.
• Examines Reformation in Eastern and Western Europe, Asia and the Americas.
• Takes a broad, inclusive approach - covering both traditional topics and cutting-edge areas of debate.

About the Author

R. Po-chia Hsia is Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University. He previously taught at Columbia, Cornell, University of Massachusetts, and New York University. He has received fellowships from the United States and Germany, and has held visiting professorships and research positions in Germany and the Netherlands. Elected in 2000 to the Academia Sinica (Taiwan), he is currently researching the history of Sino-European relations from the 16th to the 18th centuries. His books include Society and Religion in Munster 1535-1618 (1984), Social Discipline in the Reformation. Central Europe 1550-1750 (1989), and The World of Catholic Renewal 1540-1770 (1998).

Reviews
"This volume of essays can greatly help teachers and students alike read more deeply in a variety of topics in the Reformation era, pick up various lines of research, and often get a good grasp of some current lines of questioning and scholarship in the academy." Teaching Theology and Religion

"This volume offers an interesting and thought-provoking overview ... and is equally useful as a teaching aid and as a general reference work on the Reformation." Sehepunkte

"The various contributors skilfully weave past and current research into their critical accounts, always trying their best to keep their texts accessible to the general reader and the scholar alike ... The editor is to be commended for his success in bringing together a cohort of such experts and for viewing the world of the Reformation from so many different angles, extending the historical range far into the late seventeenth century, which allows the reader to comprehend the long-term effects of the Reform movement."
Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona, The Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Early Modern Studies

"The quality of the essays is uniformly and consistently high ... .Overall, [this book] should prove to be of considerable value." H-Net Reviews

"Professor Po-chia Hsia, well known as the author of many books and articles on the Reformation, Counter-Reformation, and the history of anti-Semitism, assembled a team of twenty-eight scholars from Europe,
America and Asia to join him in writing contributions to this volume. The volume contains several very useful overviews of countries or areas about which relatively little has been published in English." English Historical Review

Book Information
ISBN 9781405149624
Author R. Po-chia Hsia
Format Paperback
Page Count 592
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 1025g
Dimensions(mm) 246mm * 173mm * 33mm