Companion to the Reformation World

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).

"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

• List of Contributors viiiIntroduction: The Reformation and its Worlds xiiR. Po-chia HsiaPart I On the Eve of the Reformation1 Dissent and Heresy 3Euan Cameron2 Society and Piety 22Larissa TaylorPart II The Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire3 Martin Luther and the German Nation 39Robert Kolb4 The Peasants’ War 56Tom Scott5 Radical Religiosity in the German Reformation 70Hans-Jürgen Goertz6 The Reformation in German-Speaking Switzerland 86Kaspar von GreyerzPart III The European Reformation7 Calvin and Geneva 105Robert M. Kingdon8 Reform in the Low Countries 118Joke Spaans9 The Reformation in England to 1603 135Christopher Haigh10 The Religious Wars in France 150Barbara B. Diefendorf11 The Italian Reformation 169Massimo Firpo12 The Reformation in Bohemia and Poland 185James R. Palmitessa13 Old and New Faith in Hungary, Turkish Hungary, and Transylvania 205István György Tóth Part IV Catholic Renewal and Confessional Struggles14 The Society of Jesus 223John O’Malley15 Female Religious Orders 237Amy E. Leonard16 The Inquisition 255William Monter17 The Thirty Years’ War 272Johannes Burkhardt18 Spain and Portugal 291José Pedro Paiva19 Parish Communities, Civil War, and Religious Conflict in England 311Dan BeaverPart V Christian Europe and the World20 Religion and the Church in Early Latin America 335Kevin Terraciano21 Compromise: India 353Ines G. Županov22 Promise: China 375R. Po-chia Hsia23 A Mission Interrupted: Japan 393Michael CooperPart VI Structures of the Reformation World24 The New Parish 411Bruce Gordon25 Making Peace 426Olivier Christin26 Magic and Witchcraft 440James A. Sharpe27 Martyrs and Saints 455Brad S. Gregory28 Jews in a Divided Christendom 471Miriam Bodian29 Coexistence, Conflict, and the Practice of Toleration 486Benjamin J. KaplanBibliography 506Index 553