Short History of Renaissance and Reformation Europe, A
4th Edition
Published on 10. July 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-0-13-605628-7 (ISBN)
Description
A Short History of Renaissance and Reformation Europe: Dances over Fire and Water, 4/e serves as a concise introduction to some of the major personalities, issues, events, and ideas of the Renaissance and Reformation age. The prose-like writing, highly regarded by faculty and students alike, flows without frequent interruption by jargon or foreign terms. This brief introduction of the Renaissance and Reformation age is the perfect text for the instructor who would like to supplement his/her course with additional readers or other material.
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02/2004
3rd Edition
Pearson
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Person
Jonathan W. Zophy is a professor of history at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, where he teaches courses in Renaissance and Reformation history. A winner of several teaching awards, his previous books are: Patriarchal Politics and Christoph Kress (1484-1535) of Nuremberg, The Social History of the Reformation (edited with Lawrence P. Buck), The Holy Roman Empire: A Dictionary Handbook, and An Annotated Bibliography of the Holy Roman Empire.
Content
1. Introduction: The Best and Worst of Times
2. The Peoples of Europe
3. An Age of Disasters
4. Italy: Home of the Renaissance
5. The Culture of Renaissance Humanism in Italy
6. Painting in Renaissance Italy
7 . Renaissance Sculpture, Architecture, and Music
8. The Northern Monarchies and Their Overseas Expansion
9. The Renaissance in the North
10. Martin Luther's Revolt
11. The Spread of Lutheranism
12. Zwingli, Swiss Reform, and Anabaptism
13. John Calvin and Calvinism
14. The Reformation in England to 1558
15. A Tale of Two Queens: Elizabeth I of England and Mary of Scotland
17. An Age of Religious Warfare, 1546-1660
18. The Legacy
Index
2. The Peoples of Europe
3. An Age of Disasters
4. Italy: Home of the Renaissance
5. The Culture of Renaissance Humanism in Italy
6. Painting in Renaissance Italy
7 . Renaissance Sculpture, Architecture, and Music
8. The Northern Monarchies and Their Overseas Expansion
9. The Renaissance in the North
10. Martin Luther's Revolt
11. The Spread of Lutheranism
12. Zwingli, Swiss Reform, and Anabaptism
13. John Calvin and Calvinism
14. The Reformation in England to 1558
15. A Tale of Two Queens: Elizabeth I of England and Mary of Scotland
17. An Age of Religious Warfare, 1546-1660
18. The Legacy
Index