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Religious Reformation and Conflict: Bibliography
This bibliography will be compiled over the course of the spring semester
1997 to assist students in the RELIGIOUS REFORMATION AND CONFLICT class
in the research for their projects. Items will be added as student needs
become clearer.
The quality of student work often suffers from the lack of any attempt to
evaluate the utility and reliability of the secondary sources consulted.
There are several ways such an evaluation might be done quickly. First,
consult REVIEWS of the books in the important scholarly journals in the
field. These reviews will both tell you which books are important
contributions and point out defects in the argument and research. If you
cannot find a review of a book published more than two years ago in this
type of journal, you should return it and find something else. Second,
books brought out by UNIVERSITY PRESSES have usually undergone a rigorous
evaluation by experts before publication and are, therefore, usually more
reliable than those works that have not had such a thorough review.
JOURNAL ARTICLES will be an important source of information necessary for
your research, and the bibliographies and notes of other books and
articles can be mined for citations to these. Those articles published
in the important scholarly journals in the field have also undergone a
rigorous review. You may look at list of
scholarly journals in the ISU library.
Your research will be improved a great deal if you are able to use
PRIMARY SOURCES related to your historical cases. For example, you might
find comments in the writings of those involved in a religious movement
about authority in theory and about the behavior and institutions of
political authority in a particular regime. Or you might find a
revealing discussion by an official of a political regime of the intentions
and values of the members and leaders of some religious group. Thanks in
part to the holdings of the Glenn E. Tyler
Collection, the ISU library has a number of primary sources of this
type, at least in the area of European history.
Questions? Please put your name
and e-mail address in the body of your message.
Theoretical Perspectives
- J. C. Alexander, Action and Its Environments: Toward a New
Synthesis (on library reserve)
- M. S. Archer, Culture and Agency: The Place of Culture in
Social Theory
- J. H. Bentley, Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts
and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times, ch. 1 "Cross-Cultural Contacts
and Exchanges"
- P. Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice
- J. Elster, The Cement of Society: Studies in Rationality and
Social Change
- C. Geertz, Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco
and Indonesia
- C. Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures
- C. Geertz, Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century
Bali
- A. Giddens, Central Problems in Social Theory: Action,
Structure and Contradiction in Social Analysis
- A. Giddens, The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory
of Structuration
- A. Giddens, Social Theory and Modern Sociology
- L. Holy and M. Stuchlik, Actions, Norms and Representations:
Foundations of Anthropological Inquiry
- L. Hunt (ed.), The New Cultural History (contains some
good brief discussions of others on this list)
- G. Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy
- J. R. Levenson, Confucian China and Its Modern Fate: A
Trilogy (The ISU library does not have the one-volume edition of
the trilogy, with the general theoretical introduction, but it does have
the original publication of each of the three parts.)
- M. Sahlins, Islands of History
- T. Skocpol (ed.), Vision and Method in Historical
Sociology (several good articles)
- E. P. Thompson, Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional
Popular Culture
Bibliographic Guides
- W. S. Maltby (ed.), Reformation Europe: A Guide to Research
II (on library reserve)
- J. W. O'Malley (ed.), Catholicism in Early Modern History: A
Guide to Research (on library reserve)
- S. Ozment (ed.), Reformation Europe: A Guide to
Research. St. Louis, MO: Center for Reformation Research, 1982.
(not in the ISU collection; worth getting on interlibrary loan if you are
working on any of the following topics)
F. Oakley, "Religious and Ecclesiastical Life on the Eve of the
Reformation"
J. D. Tracy, "Humanism and the Reformation"
M. U. Edwards, Jr., "Martin Luther"
S. Ozment, "Pamphlet Literature of the German Reformation"
R. W. Scribner, "The German Peasants' War"
J. M. Stayer, "The Anabaptists"
T. A. Brady, Jr., "Social History"
H. C. E. Midelfort, "Witchcraft, Magic, and the Occult"
D. C. Steinmetz, "The Theology of Calvin and Calvinism"
R. M. Kingdon, "Pamphlet Literature of the French Reformation"
C. C.Christensen, "Reformation and Art"
P. Seaver, "The English Reformation"
J. W. O'Malley, "Catholic Reform"
N. Z. Davis, "From 'Popular Religion' to Religious Cultures"
J. Irwin, "Society and the Sexes"
J. M. Kittelson, "The Confessional Age: The Late Reformation in Germany"
General Works
- J. Bossy, Christianity in the West, 1400-1700
- E. Cameron, The European Reformation
- H. J. Cohn (ed.), Government in Reformation Europe,
1520-1560
- Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and
Schools of Religious Thought
- Dictionary of the Ecumenical Movement
- Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, 4 vols.
- S. Ozment, The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and
Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe (on
library reserve; a good place to turn for clear explanations of the major
contributions to philosophy and religious thought).
- A. Pettegree (ed.), The Early Reformation in Europe
- T. Rabb, Renaissance Lives: Portraits of an Age
- C. J. Rogers (ed.), The Military Revolution Debate: Readings
on the Transformation of Early Modern Europe
- B. Scribner, R. Porter, and M. Teich (eds.), The Reformation in
National Context
- P. Zagorin, Ways of Lying: Dissimulation, Persecution, and
Conformity in Early Modern Europe
Devotional Practices
- C. W. Bynum, The Resurrection of the Body in Western
Christianity, 200-1336
- Dictionary of the Liturgy
- Dictionary of Western Church Music
- B. Harvey, Living and Dying in England, 1100-1540: The Monastic
Experience
- R. Hutton, The Rise and Fall of Merry England: The Ritual
Year, 1400-1700
- M. L. King, The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello
- E. Muir, Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli
during the Renaissance
- M. Rubin, Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval
Culture
Economic Life
- T. H. Aston and C. H. E. Philpin (eds.), The Brenner Debate:
Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial
Europe
- A. E. Bland, P. A. Brown, and R. H. Tawney (eds.), English
Economic History: Select Documents
- F. Braudel, The Structures of Everyday Life: vol. 1 of
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century
- F. Braudel, The Wheels of Commerce: vol. 2 of
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century
- F. Braudel, The Perspective of the World: vol. 3 of
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century
- M. C. 't Hart, The Making of a Bourgeois State: War, Politics,
and Finance during the Dutch Revolt
- E. E. Rich and C. H. Wilson (eds.), The Economy of Expanding
Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: vol. IV of
The Cambridge Economic History of Europe
- J. Thirsk (ed.), vol. IV (1500-1640) of The Agrarian History of
England and Wales
- J. de Vries, European Urbanization, 1500-1800
- C. Wilson and G. Parker (eds.), An Introduction to the Sources
of European Economic History, 1500-1800 (from the series "The
Sources of History: Studies in the Uses of Historical Evidence")
- J. L. van Zanden, The Rise and Decline of Holland's Economy:
Merchant Capitalism and the Labour Market
Causes of the Reformation
- E. Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in
England, c. 1400-c. 1580
New Means of Communication
- J. Dagenais, The Ethics of Reading in Manuscript Culture:
Glossing the "Libro de Buen Amor"
- H.-J. Martin, The History and Power of Writing
Political Thought
- M. G. Baylor (ed. and trans.), The Radical Reformation
- A. Black, Political Thought in Europe, 1250-1450
- Q. Skinner, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought,
2 vols.
- M. Van Gelderen (ed. and trans.), The Dutch Revolt
The Lutheran Reformation
- R. Bainton, Here I Stand! A Life of Martin Luther
- M. Brecht, Martin Luther: Shaping and Defining the
Reformation, 1521-1532
- M. U. Edwards, Jr., Luther's Last Battles: Politics and
Polemics, 1531-46
- H. G. Haile, Luther: An Experiment in Biography
- S. H. Hendrix, Luther and the Papacy: Stages in a Reformation
Conflict
- S. C. Karant-Nunn, Zwickau in Transition, 1500-1547: The
Reformation as an Agent of Change
- J. Kittelson, Luther the Reformer: The Story of the Man and
His Career
- M. Lienhard, Luther: Witness to Jesus Christ: Stages and
Themes of the Reformer's Christology
- J. Lindhardt, Martin Luther: Knowledge and Mediation in the
Renaissance
- B. Lohse, Martin Luther: An Introduction to His Life and
Work
- C. Manschreck, Melanchthon: The Quiet Reformer
- A. E. McGrath, Luther's Theology of the Cross: Martin Luther's
Theological Breakthrough
- H. A. Oberman, Luther: Man between God and the Devil
- E. G. Schwiebert, Luther and His Times
- T. Scott and B. Scribner (eds.), The German Peasants' War: A
History in Documents
- D. C. Steinmetz, Luther and Staupitz: An Essay in the
Intellectual Origins of the Protestant Reformation
- J. Wicks, Luther and His Spiritual Legacy
The Reformed Tradition
- L. J. Abray, The People's Reformation: Magistrates, Clergy and
Commons in Strasbourg, 1500-1598
- J. R. Beeke, Assurance of Faith: Calvin, English Puritanism,
and the Dutch Second Reformation
- P. Blickle, Communal Reformation: The Quest for Salvation in
Sixteenth-Century Germany
- W. Bouwsma, John Calvin: A Profile of the Sixteenth Century
- A. Duke, Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries
- A. Duke, G. Lewis, and A.
Pettegree (eds. and trans.),
Calvinism in Europe, 1540-1610: A Collection of Documents
- M. Greengrass, Conscience and Society: Calvinism in Early
Modern Europe
- A. N. S. Lane, Calvin and Bernard of Clairvaux [in the
series Studies in Reformed Theology and History]
- A. E. McGrath, A Life of John Calvin
- E. A. McKee and B. G. Armstrong (eds.), Probing the Reformed
Tradition: Historical Studies in Honor of E. A. Dowey, Jr.
- A. Pettegree, A. Duke, and G. Lewis (eds.), Calvinism in
Europe, 1540-1620 [collection of original essays]
- M. Prestwich (ed.), International Calvinism, 1541-1715
- H. Schilling, CivicCalvinism in Northwest Germany and the
Netherlands, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
- R. S. Wallace, Calvin, Geneva and the Reformation: A Study of
Calvin as Social Reformer, Churchman, Pastor and Theologian
- R. C. Walton, Zwingli's Theocracy
The Catholic Reformation and the Papacy
- E. G. Gleason, Gasparo Contarini: Venice, Rome, and Reform
- J. Martin, Venice's Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a
Renaissance City
- B. Netanyahu, The Origins of the Inquisition in
Fifteenth-Century Spain
The Reformation in England
- I. K. Ben-Amos, Adolescence and Youth in Early Modern
England
- P. Collinson, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement
- P. Collinson, The Religion of Protestants: The Church in
English Society 1559-1625
- E. Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in
England, c. 1400-c. 1580
- G. R. Elton, England: 1200-1640 (from the series "The
Sources of History: Studies in the Uses of Historical Evidence")
- R. Whiting, The Blind Devotion of the People: Popular religion
and the English Reformation
Women in the Reformation Era
- S. Marshall (ed.), Women in Reformation and Counter-Reformation
Europe: Private and Public Worlds
- L. Roper, The Holy Household: Women and Morals in Reformation
Augsburg [earlier: The Holy Household: Religion, Morals,
and Order in Reformation Augsberg]
Native American Religions
- J. Lockhart, The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and
Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth Through
Eighteenth Centuries
- S. E. Ramirez (ed.), Indian-Religious Relations in Colonial
Spanish America
Islam
- R. L. Pouwels, Horn and Crescent: Cultural Change and
Traditional Islam on the East African Coast, 800-1900
- A. Reid, Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce,
1450-1680: Vol. 2, Expansion and Crisis
All contents copyright (C) 1996, 1997.
J. B. Owens
All rights reserved.
Revised: 19 February 1997
URL: http://www.isu.edu/~owenjack/rrc/bib.html