Politics and Society in Reformation Europe: Essays for Sir Geoffrey Elton on his Sixty-Fifth Birthday

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Impact of the Reformation: Problems and Perspectives....Pages 3-31
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
Martin Luther and the Political World of his Time....Pages 35-50
The Holy Roman Empire in German History....Pages 51-77
‘Comme représentant nostre propre personne’-The Regency Ordinances of Charles V as a Historical Source....Pages 78-102
Police and the Territorial State in Sixteenth-century Württemberg....Pages 103-120
Is There a ‘New History’ of the Urban Reformation?....Pages 121-141
The Common Man and the Lost Austria in the West: A Contribution to the German Problem....Pages 142-157
Church Property in the German Protestant Principalities....Pages 158-187
The Problem of ‘Failure’ in the Swiss Reformation: Some Preliminary Reflections....Pages 188-209
Economic Conflict and Co-operation on the Upper Rhine, 1450–1600....Pages 210-231
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
Luther in Europe: His Works in Translation 1517–46....Pages 235-251
Europe as Seen Through the Correspondence of Theodore Beza....Pages 252-265
Bodin’s Universe and its Paradoxes: Some Problems in the Intellectual Biography of Jean Bodin....Pages 266-288
‘History of Crime’ or ‘History of Sin’? — Some Reflections on the Social History of Early Modern Church Discipline....Pages 289-310
What is a ‘Religious War’?....Pages 311-328
Cardinal Reginald Pole and the Path to Anglo-Papal Mediation at the Peace Conference of Marcq, 1553–55....Pages 329-352
Orange, Granvelle and Philip II*....Pages 353-378
The Shape of Anti-clericalism and the English Reformation....Pages 379-410
For True Faith or National Interest? Queen Elizabeth I and the Protestant Powers....Pages 411-436
Queen Elizabeth I, the Emperor Rudolph II, and Archduke Ernest, 1593–94....Pages 437-451
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
The Settlement of the Merchants Adventurers at Stade, 1587–1611....Pages 452-472
Two Revolutions in Early Modern Denmark....Pages 473-501
The European Powers and Sweden in the Reign of Gustav Vasa....Pages 502-515
The Conclusive Years: The End of the Sixteenth Century as the Turning-Point of Polish History....Pages 516-532
Front Matter....Pages 533-533
The Reformation and the Modern World....Pages 535-552
Back Matter....Pages 553-568