R PO-CHIA HSIA

A Companion to the Reformation World

Herausgeber: Hsia, R Po-Chia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together 29 new essays by leading international scholars, to provide an inclusive overview of recent work in Reformation history. The articles examine the Reformation in its broadest definition, presenting the Catholic Renewal as a continuum of the Protestant Reformation. The essays span the late fifteenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century and they focus on the workings of religious reform in all areas of Latin Christendom and beyond to include Eastern as well as Western Europe, Asia and the Americas. Established topics are examined alongside new areas of study, incorporating the latest scholarship and conceptual debates to provide a wide-ranging survey of the state of contemporary Reformation historiography. The book will be the ideal reference for students and professional historians interested in understanding the current concerns and future direction of this field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1105g
• ISBN-13: 9781405149624
• ISBN-10: 1405149620
• Artikelnr.: 21687315

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Reformation and Its Worlds: R. Po-chia Hsia(Pennsylvania State University).

Part I: On the Eve of the Reformation.

Part II: The Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire.

Part III: The European Reformation.

Part IV: Catholic Renewal and Confessional Struggles.

Part V: Christian Europe and the World.

Part VI: Structures of the Reformation World.

Consolidated Bibliography.

Index

Rezensionen

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

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

"The various contributors skilfully weave past and currentresearch into their critical accounts, always trying their best tokeep their texts accessible to the general reader and the scholaralike ... The editor is to be commended for his success inbringing together a cohort of such experts and for viewing theworld of the Reformation from so many different angles, extendingthe historical range far into the late seventeenth century, whichallows the reader to comprehend the long-term effects of the Reformmovement."
Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona, The Sixteenth CenturyJournal, The Journal of Early Modern Studies

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

"Professor Po-chia Hsia, well known as the author of manybooks and articles on the Reformation, Counter-Reformation, and thehistory of anti-Semitism, assembled a team of twenty-eight scholarsfrom Europe,
America and Asia to join him in writing contributions to thisvolume. The volume contains several very useful overviews ofcountries or areas about which relatively little has been publishedin English." English Historical Review