The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe

Contents --
List of Illustrations --
Preface --
1. The Interpretation of Medieval Intellectual History --
2. The Scholastic Traditions --
How Man Is Saved: Theories of Salvation from Augustine to Gabriel Biel --
How Man Truly Knows: Theories of Knowledge from Augustine to Ockham --
What Scripture Means: The Interpretation of the Bible in the Middle Ages --
3. The Spiritual Traditions --
Critics of Scholasticism --
Monastic Piety --
The Franciscan Movement --
Varieties of Mystical Experience --
4. The Ecclesiopolitical Traditions Secular and Theocratic Concepts of GovernmentThe Pre-eminence of Peter --
Royal and Papal Apologists --
The Schism and the Rise of the Conciliar Theory of Church Government --
The Council of Constance --
The Conciliar Movement After Constance --
Summary --
5 . On the Eve of the Reformation --
The Growth of Monarchy --
Population, Money, and Books --
Religious Culture --
6. The Mental World of Martin Luther --
Young Man Luther --
Luther and Scholasticism --
Luther and Mysticism --
7 . Society and Politics in the German Reformation Imperial Politics in the First Half of the Sixteenth CenturyLutheran Social Philosophy --
The Revolt of the Common Man --
8. Humanism and the Reformation --
Erasmus and Luther --
Protestant Reformers: Biblical Humanists or New Scholastics? --
Protestantism and Humanist Educational Reform --
9. The Swiss Reformation --
Zwingli and Zurich --
Conrad Grebel and Swiss Anabaptism --
The Working Out of Zwinglianism --
10. The Sectarian Spectrum: Radical Movements within Protestantism --
11. Calvin and Calvinism --
Young Calvin Political Revolt and Religious Reform in GenevaStrasbourg and Martin Bucer --
Calvin�s Geneva: 15 41� 64 --
Were Calvinists Really Protestants? --
12. Marriage and the Ministry in the Protestant Churches --
13. Catholic Reform and Counter Reformation --
The Quest for Catholic Reform: From Constance to Trent --
The Society of Jesus --
14. Protestant Resistance to Tyranny: The Career of John Knox --
15. The Legacy of the Reformation --
List of Abbreviations --
Index