The Longman Companion to the European Reformation, C. 1500-1618 Book

	List of diagrams, genealogies and maps
	Preface
	A note of dates
	Acknowledgements
Sect. 1	The fabric of the church	1
	Significant feast-days (solemnities) in the church calendar and periods of the Christian year	1
	Sacraments of the traditional church	3
	The penitential and devotional framework	5
	The institutions of the church	9
	Primates, archbishops and bishops	14
	Dioceses and parishes	16
	The monastic orders	21
	Other orders	24
	Secular priests living in community	24
Sect. 2	Debate and dissension within the church on the eve of the protestant reformation	26
	Senses of reformation	26
	Conciliar reform	27
	Academic debates	29
	Christian humanism	33
	Advocates of the Apocalypse	38
	Mysticism	38
	Later medieval heresies and heretics	39
Sect. 3	The Luther affair	43
	Luther and the reformation	43
	The faculty of theology at Wittenberg	45
	Summary of the dates for Luther's career and evidence for his theological development	46
	The indulgences dispute (1514-18)	48
	Broadening conflict (1518-19)	51
	Luther's excommunication (1520-21)	54
Sect. 4	The implantation of the reformation in Germany, Scandinavian lands and Swiss cantons	59
	The Holy Roman Empire	59
	Reformation and reaction in selected German principalities	64
	The Great Peasants' War (1524-26)	75
	The German reformation in its urban setting	81
	Imperial leagues	86
	The reformation in Baltic lands	89
	The reformation in Switzerland	92
Sect. 5	Sectarian lineages	101
	Radical typologies	101
	Early enthusiasts and lay preachers	102
	Anabaptist persecution and diaspora	104
	The anabaptist rising at Munster	109
	Spiritualists	112
	Refugee radicals	113
	Unitarian churches	114
Sect. 6	Reactions to the reformation	116
	France	116
	The Netherlands	129
	The Italian peninsula	145
	The Spanish peninsula	151
	The Danubian lands	156
	Poland-Lithuania	166
Sect. 7	Jean Calvin, Geneva and the refugee reformation	171
	The 'refugee reformation'	171
	Background to Calvin's exile from France	171
	Calvin's writings	172
	Geneva and Jean Calvin	178
	Refugee foyers	183
Sect. 8	Reformation from within	186
	Catholic reformation	186
	New catholic foundations	187
	The council of Trent	198
	Rome during the reformation	207
	Episcopal and parochial reform	215
Sect. 9	Confessional identities	219
	Reformation issues	219
	Reformation colloquies	245
	Reformation confessions	246
	Catechisms	251
	Eucharistic prayers	252
	Vernacular Bibles in the age of the protestant reformation	257
	Multilingual scholarly editions of the Bible	261
	Protestant martyrologies	262
Sect. 10	Background contexts	264
	European population densities in c. 1600	264
	Universities and academies	266
	Printing	269
	The enemies of the Christian community	273
	Europe's wider horizons	278
	Christian missions in the age of discovery	279
	Biographies	285
	Glossary	327
	Guide to further reading	332
	Genealogical tables	357
	Maps	363
	Index	379