The Reformation World.(Book Review)

From: Canadian Journal of History | Date: August 1, 2003| Author: Klaassen, Walter | Copyright information

edited by Andrew Pettegree. London and New York, Routledge, 2000. xvi, 576 pp. $200.00 US (cloth), $45.00 US (paper).

Anyone looking for a comprehensive volume on the Reformation of the sixteenth century should seriously consider this book of essays. There are thirty of them, describing the Reformation by nations, regions, culture, and confession. The story here does not end as so often at 1555, but is for the most part taken almost a century further along to the complet...

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