reformation

A collection of essays in which the authors examine various aspects of the sixteenth-century Reformation. Includes an appendix of excerpts from primary source documents, a bibliography, a chronology of events, and a comprehensive index.

Contains approximately two hundred alphabetized, cross-referenced articles on topics and figures related to religious change, politics, exploration, and cultural achievements between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing on Europe but also covering Africa, Asia, and the Americas, and includes a time line, glossary, and further reading list.

In 1586 England, Elizabeth, whose family is hiding a Catholic priest from Protestant reformers, and Isabella, a girl of her own age who was similarly sheltered by "faery" folk 300 years earlier when Catholics accused Isabella's mother of witchcraft, work together to keep the persecutors away.

Lists over 2500 entries covering the principal issues, events, and people in Europe throughout the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries.

Presents thirty-two primary works that represent Western humanistic thought from the sixth century through the sixteenth, along with introductions on the author and the significance of each; includes pieces by such figures as St. Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Martin Luther.

Beginning with the Black Death, this volume of the author's history of Europe discusses how the innovations and explorations of the Renaissance era and the events of the Reformation changed the Western world to an extent that would not occur again until the twentieth century.

Contains illustrated articles that chronicle European history between 1300 and 1700; discussing the influence of plague and war on the European people and examining the development of humanism. Arranged alphabetically from Battle of Agincourt to Dams and Drainage.

Cipriano Salcedo joins the Reformation movement in sixteenth-century Spain and fights against the political upheaval that is threatening his country and his life.