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The Late Medieval Church and Christian Humanism:

Roland Bainton, Erasmus. 1969.

Eckhard Bernstein, German Humanism. 1983.

Louis B. Hall, The Perilous Vision of John Wycliff. 1983.

Denys Hay. The Church in Italy in the Fifteenth Century. 1977.

Johan Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages. 1924.

Guillaume Mollat. The Popes At Avignon, 1305-1378. 1963.

Heiko A. Oberman, The Harvest of Medieval Theology. 1967.

Steven Ozment. The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe. 1980.

Peter Partner. The Papal State Under Martin V. 1958.

__________. Renaissance Rome, 1500-1559. 1976.

Regnerus R. Post, The Modern Devotion: Confrontation with Reformation and Humanism.

Yves Renouard, The Avignon Papacy, 1305-1403. 1970.

Lionel Rothkrug, Religious Practices and Collective Perceptions:

Religious Practices and Collective Perceptions:

Hidden Homologies in the Renaissance and ReformationHidden Homologies in the Renaissance and Reformation.  1980.

Lewis W. Spitz, The Religious Renaissance of the German Humanists. 1963.

Charles Trinkaus, ed. The Pursuit of Holiness in Late Medieval and Renaissance Religion. 1974.

Max Reinhart, ed., Infinite Boundaries: Order, Disorder and Reorder in Early Modern German Culture, vol. 40, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, (1988)

Jean Delumeau, Sin and Fear. The Emergence of a Western Guilt Culture, 13th-18th Centuries. (1990)

Martin Luther and the Protestant and Catholic ReformationsMartin Luther and the Protestant and Catholic Reformations:

Roland Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther. 1950.

Roland Bainton, The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century.

Peter Blickle, The Revolution of 1525. 1975.

Martin Brecht. Martin Luther. Shaping and Defining the Reformation,1521-1532. 1990.

Claus-Peter Clasen. Anabaptism, A Social History, 1525-1618. 1972.

Patrick Collinson, The Birthpangs of Protestant England. 1988.

Jean Delumeau, Catholicism between Luther and Voltaire: A New View of the Counter Reformation. 1977.

A.G. Dickens and John Tonkin. The Reformation in Historical Thought. 1985.

A.G. Dickens. The Counter Reformation. 1969

Carlos M. N. Eire, War Against the Idols. The Reformation of Worship from Erasmus to Calvin. 1986. BR307.E57 1986

Christopher Elwood, The Body Broken:  The Calvinist Doctrine of the Eucharist and the Symbolization of Power in Sixteenth-century France, (Oxford, 1999)

Mark Greengrass. The French Reformation. 1986.

H. Jedin. The Council of Trent. 3 vols. 1957-1967.

Donald R. Kelley, Francois Hotman: A Revolutionary's Ordeal.  1973.

Keith P. Luria, Territories of Grace. Cultural Change in the Seventeenth-Century Diocese of Grenoble. Univ. of California Press, 1991 BX 1532 G7 L87 1991

K. B. McFarlane, John Wycliffe and the Beginnings of EnglishNonconformity. 1952.

__________. Origins of Religious Dissent in England. 1966.

Alister McGrath, The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation. 1987.

Heiko Oberman, The Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Age of Renaissance and Reformation. 1984.

Steven Ozment. The Reformation in the Cities: The Appeal of Protestantism to Sixteenth Century Germany and Switzerland. 1975.

T. H. L. Parker. John Calvin, A Biography. 1975.

Gordon Rupp. Luther's Progress to the Diet of Worms. 1964.

Gordon Rupp. Patterns of Reformation. 1969.

Leo F. Solt. Church and State in Early Modern England, 1509 - 1640. 1990.

Lewis Spitz, The Reformation's Basic Interpretations. 1972.

Gerald Strauss. Luther's House of Learning. 1978.

Nicolle M. Sutherland. The Huguenot Struggle for Recognition. 1980.

George H. Williams. The Radical Reformation. 1962.

European Monarchies, Wars of Religion and the Seventeenth Century Crisis:

Spain and the Mediterranean

Fernand Braudel. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. 2 vols. 1973.

James Casey, The Kingdom of Valencia in the Seventeenth Century. 1979.

D. S. Chambers. The Imperial Age of Venice, 1380-1580. 1970.

John. H. Elliott. Imperial Spain, 1469-1716. 1963.

J. H. Elliott, The Count-Duke of Olivares: The Statesman in an Age of Decline. (1986)

__________. The Revolt of the Catalans. 1963.

Joanne M. Ferraro, Family and Public Life in Brescia, 1580- 1650. 1993.

Steven Haliczer, The Communeros of Castile. The Forging of a Revolution. 1981.

Jonathan Israel. The Dutch, the Spanish Monarchy and the Jews 1585-1713. 1990.

H. G. Koenigsberger, The Government of Sicily Under Philip II of Spain. 1951.

Frederic C. Lane. Venice, A Maritime Republic. 1973.

Geoffrey Parker. Philip II. 1978.

Geoffrey Parker, The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road,1567-1659, (1972)

Peter Pierson, Philip II of Spain. 1975.

Helen Nader, Liberty in Absolutist Spain: The Habsburg Sale of the Towns.

Sarah T. Nalle.  God in La Mancha: Religious Reform and the People of Cuenca, 1500-1650.  Baltimore.  Johns Hopkins University Press.  1992.

England and the Low Countries

John Brewer, The Sinews of Power. War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783. 1989.

G.R. Elton. England Under the Tudors. 1955.

G.R. Elton. Policy and Police: The Enforcement of the Reformation in the Age of Thomas Cromwell. 1972.

G.R. Elton. Reform and Renewal: Thomas Cromwell and the Common Weal. 1973.

Myron P. Gutman, War and Rural Life in the Early Modern Low Countries. (1980)

Jonathan Israel, ed. The Anglo-Dutch Moment: Essays on the Glorious Revolution and it World Impact. 1991.

Wallace T. MacCaffrey, Elizabeth I: War and Politics, 1588-1603. 1992.

Wallace T. MacCaffrey. The Shaping of the Elizabethan Regime. 1968.

J.L. Price, Holland and the Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century. The Politics of Particularism. (1994)

J. J. Scarisbrick. Henry VIII. 1968.

Simon Schama, The Embarrassement of Riches. An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (1987)

Paul Slack, ed. Rebellion, Popular Protest and the Social Order in Early Modern England. Cambridge UP 1984 HV 6485 G72 E567 1984

Andrew Pettegree, Emden and the Dutch Revolt.   Oxford.   Oxford University Press.  1992.

__________, ed.  The Reformation of the Parishes.  Manchester.   1993.

Charles H. Parker, The Reformation of the Community:  The Diaconate and Municipal Poor Relief in Holland.  Cambridge.  1998.

Guido Marnef, antwerp in the Age of the Reformation.  trans. J. C. Grayson.  Baltimore.  Johns Hopkins University Press.  1996.

Germany and Central Europe

Geoffrey Barraclough, The Origins of Modern Germany. 1946.

Thomas Brady, Turning Swiss: Cities and Empire, 1450-1550. 1985.

F. L. Carsten. The Origins of Prussia. 1954.

F. L. Carsten. Princes and Parliaments in Germany. 1959.

R.J.W. Evans. The Making of the Hapsburg Monarchy, 1550-1770. 1979.

R. J. W. Evans. Rudolf II and His World. 1973.

Hajo Holborn. A History of Modern Germany. vols. I, II. 1959.

R. Po-chia Hsia, Society and Religion in Munster, 1535-1618. 1984.

Marcia Reines Josephy, Magic and Superstition in the Jewish Tradition. 1975.

Robert A. Kann, A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918. 1974.

H. G. Koenigsberger, The Habsburgs and Europe, 1516-1660. 1971.

Victor L. Tapié, The Rise and Fall of the Habsburg Monarchy. 1969.

Mack Walker, German Home Towns. Community, State and General Estate, 1648-1871. (1971)

Peter Wallace, Communities and Conflict in Early Modern Colmar,1575-1730, Humanities Press, 1995 DC 801 .C657 W35 1995

David W. Myers.  Poor Sinning Folk:  Confession and Conscience in Counter-Reformation Germany.  Ithaca.  Cornell University Press.  1996.

France

Frederic J. Baumgartner, Change and Continuity in the French Episcopate: The Bishops and the Wars of Religion, 1547-1610. 1986.

___________. Radical Reactionaries: the Political Thought of the French Catholic League. 1976.

William Beik, Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth Century France. 1985.

Joseph Bergin. Cardinal Richelieu: Power and the Pursuit of Wealth. 1985.

Davis Bitton, The French Nobility in Crisis, 1560-1640. 1969.

March Bloch, The Royal Touch: Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France. 1972.

Richard Bonney, Political Change in France Under Richelieu and Mazarin. 1978.

__________. The King's Debts, Finance and Politics in France,1589-1661. 1981.

David Buisseret, Henry IV. 1984.

__________. Sully and the Growth of Centralized Government inFrance, 1598-1610. 1968.

James B. Collins, Classes, Estates and Order in Early Modern Brittany Cambridge UP, 1994 DC 611 B851 C59 1994

James B. Collins, Fiscal Limits of Absolutism: Direct Taxation in Early Seventeenth Century France. 1988.

J. H. Elliott, Richelieu and Olivares. (1984)

Jonathan Dewald, Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture. France, 1570-1715. (1993)

Mark Greengrass, France in the Age of Henry IV; the Struggle for Stability. 1984.

Sarah Hanley, The Lit de Justice of the Kings of France: Constitutional Ideology in Legend, Ritual and Discourse. 1983.

Robert R. Harding, Anatomy of a Power Elite: The Provincial Governors of Early Modern France. 1978.

Daniel Hickey, The Coming of French Absolutism: The Struggle for Tax Reform in the Province of Dauphiné, 1540-1640 1986.

Sharon Kettering, Judicial Politics and urban Revolt in Seventeenth-Century France. (1978)

Sharon Kettering, Patrons, Brokers and Clients in Seventeenth Century France. (1986)

R. J. Knecht, Francis I. 1988.

R. J. Knecht, Richelieu. 1991.

A. D. Lublinskaya, French Absolutism: The Crucial Phase,1620-1629. 1968.

J. Russell Major, Representative Government in Early Modern France. (1980)

Elizabeth Marvick, The Young Richelieu: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Leadership. (1983)

Raymond A. Mentzer, jr. Blood and Belief. Family Survival and Confessional Identity Among the Provincial Huguenot Nobility. (1994)

A. Lloyd Moote, Louis XIII, The Just. (1989)

A. Lloyd Moote, The Revolt of the Judges: The Parlement of Paris and the Fronde, 1643-1652. (1971)

Roland Mousnier, The Assassination of Henry IV. (1973)

Kathryn Norberg, Rich and Poor in Grenoble, 1600-1814. (1985)

Orest Ranum, Richelieu and the Councillors of Louis XIII. 1963.

Nancy Lyman Roelker, One King, One Faith: the Parlement of Paris and the religious reformations of the sixteenth-century.  Berkeley.  1996.

Hilton Root, The Fountain of Privilege. Political Foundations of Markets in Old Regime France and England (1994)

__________. Peasants and King in Burgundy. Agrarian Foundations of French Absolutism. (1987)

Victor-L. Tapié, France in the Age of Louis XIII and Richelieu. 1975.

Geoffrey R. R. Treasure, Cardinal Richelieu and the Development of Absolutism. 1972.

Martin Wolfe, The Fiscal System of Renaissance France. 1972.

James B. Wood, The King's Army. Warfare, Soldiers and Society during the Wars of Religion in France, 1562-1576 Cambridge UP 1996

Communities and Social Change

James S. Amelang. Honored Citizens of Barcelona: Patrician Culture and Class Relations, 1490-1714. 1986.

Ian Archer, The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London. 1991.

Philip Benedict, ed. Cities and Social Change in Early Modern France. 1989.

Philip Benedict. Rouen During the Wars of Religion. 1981.

Marc Bloch, French Rural History: An Essay on Its Basic Characteristics. 1972.

Jeremy Boulton, Neighbourhoud and Society: A London Suburb in the Seventeenth Century 1987.

John Chartres and David Hey, eds. English Rural Society, 1500-1800: Essays in honour of Joan Thirsk. 1990.

Bernard Cottret. The Huguenots in England: Immigration and Settlement, c. 1550-1700. 1991.

Jonathan Dewald. The Formation of a Provincial Nobility: The Magistrates of the Parlement of Rouen, 1499-1610. 1980.

Jonathan Dewald, Pont St. Pierre, 1398-1789: Lordship, Community and Capitalism in Early-Modern France. (1987)

Barbara B. Diefendorf, Beneath the Cross: Catholics and Huguenots in Sixteenth Century Paris. 1991.

Barbara B. Diefendorf, Paris City Councillors in the Sixteenth Century: The Politics of Patrimony. 1983.

Robert S. Duplessis, Lille and the Dutch Revolt: Urban Stability in an Era of Revolution, 1500-1582 1991.

James R. Farr, Hands of Honor: Artisans and their World in Dijon, 1550-1650. 1988.

Malcolm Greenshields, An Economy of Violence in Early Modern France. Crime and Justice in Haute Auvergne, 1587-1664. Penn. State UP 1994 HV 6969 A9 G74 1994

Philip T. Hoffman, Growth in a Traditional Society. The French Countryside, 1450-1815. Princeton UP, 1996

Philip T. Hoffman, Church and Community in the Diocese of Lyon,1500-1789. (1984)

E. LeRoy Ladurie. The Peasants of Languedoc. (1974)

Marjorie Keniston McIntosh. A Community Transformed: The Manor and Liberty of Havering, 1500-1620. 1991.

Steven Ozment. The Reformation in the Cities. 1975.

Ruth Pike. Aristocrats and Traders: Sevillian Society in the Sixteenth Century. 1972.

L. R. Poos. A Rural Society After the Black Death: Essex 1350-1525. 1991.

Steven Rappaport. Worlds Within Worlds: Structures of Life in Sixteenth Century London. 1989.

Robert A. Schneider, Public Life in Toulouse, 1463-1789. 1989.

Gerald Strauss, Nuremberg in the Sixteenth Century. 1976.

Robert Tittler, The Reformation and the Towns in England: Politics and Political Culture, c. 1540-1640.  (Oxford, 1998)

The Seventeenth Century Crisis

Trevor Aston, ed. Crisis in Europe, 1560-1660. 1967.

Robert Forster and J. P. Greene, Eds. Preconditions of Revolution in Early Modern Europe. 1970.

Derek Hirst, England in Conflict:  Kingdom, Community and Commonwealth (Oxford, 1999)

David L. Smith, The Stuart Parliaments, 1603-1689, (Oxford, 1999)

Henry Kamen, The Iron Century: Social Change in Europe, 1550-1660. 1971.

Geoffrey Parker and Lesley M. Smith, eds. The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century. 1978.

Theodore K. Rabb, The struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe. 1975.

Charles Wilson, The Transformation of Europe, 1558-1648. 1976.

Commerce and European Expansion:

Glenn J. Ames, Colbert, Mercantilism and the French Quest for Asian Trade. Northern Illinois UP, 1996

Kenneth R. Andrews. Ships, Money and Politics: Seafaring and Naval Enterprise in the Reign of Charles I. 1991.

William Brandon, New Worlds for Old: Reports from the New World and their Effect on the Development of Social Thought in Europe, 1500-1800. Ohio UP, 1986

Gayle K. Brunelle. The New World Merchants of Rouen, 1559-1630. 1991.

Mary B. Campbell. The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400-1600. 1988.

Alfred W. Crosby, The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Greenwood Press, 1972

Stephen Greenblatt, Marvelous Possessions. The Wonder of the New World. University of Chicago Press, 1991

Jonathan Israel. European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism, 1550-1750. 1989.

Anthony Pagden, Lords of all the World. Idealogies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France, c. 1500-c.1800 Yale UP, 1995 JC 359 .P278 1995

Anthony Pagden, European Encounters with the New World. Yale UP, 1993

Ruth Pike. Enterprise and Adventure: The Genoese in Seville and the Opening of the New World. 1966.

David Harris Sacks. The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700. 1991.

G.V. Scammell, Ships, Oceans and Empire. Studies in European Maritime and Colonial History, 1400-1750. Varorium, 1995 D 215 S28 1995

Tom Scott, Regional Identity and Economic Change:  The Upper Rhine, 1450-1600, (Oxford, 1998)

L.M.E. Shaw, Trade, Inquisition and the English Nation in Portugal, 1650-1690. 1989.

James D. Tracy, ed. The Rise of Merchant Empires: Long Distance Trace in the Early Modern World, 1350-1750. 1990.

James D.Tracy, ed. The Political Economy of Merchant Empires:State Power and World Trade, 1350-1750. 1991.

Jane Whittle, The Development of Agrarian Capitalism:  Land and Labour in Norfolk, 1440-1580.  (Oxford, 2000)

Popular and Elite Culture, Family and Gender:

Susan Dwyer Amussen, An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England.

Wolfgang Behringer, Witchcraft persecutions in Bavaria: popular magic, religious zealotry, and reason of state in early modern Europe, (Cambridge, 1997)

Judith Bennett, Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600, (Oxford, 1996)

Robin Briggs, Communities of Belief: cultural and social tension in early modern France, (Oxford, 1995)

__________. Witches and Neighbors: the social and cultural context of European witchcraft, (New York, 1998)

Peter Burke, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe. 1978.

Roger Chartier, The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France.

Stuart Clark, Thinking with Demons:  The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe, (Oxford: 1997)

David Cressy, Birth, Marriage, and Death:  Ritual, Religion, and the Life Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England, (Oxford, 1997)

Natalie Zemon Davis, Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth Century France. 1987.

__________. Society and Culture in Early Modern France. 1975.

Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. 1979.

Norbert Elias, The Court Society.

James R. Farr, Authority and Sexuality in Early Modern Burgundy (1550-1730). Oxford UP 1995

Kristin Elizabeth Gager, Blood Ties and Fictive Ties. Adoption and Family Life in Early Modern France. Princeton UP 1996

Malcolm Gaskill, Crime and mentalities in early modern England, (Cambridge, 2000)

Carlo Ginzburg, The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. 1983.

Laura Gowing, Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London, (Oxford, 1996)

Barbara A. Hanawalt, ed. Women and Work in Pre-Industrial Europe (1986)

Joel F. Harrington, Reordering Marriage and Society in Reformation Germany. Cambridge UP HV 728 H293 1995

Erica Harth, Ideology and Culture in Seventeenth Century France.

Ralph A. Houlbrooke, The English Family, 1450-1700. 1984.

R. Po-chia Hsia, The Myth of Ritual Murder: Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany. 1988.

David Hunt, Parents and Children in History: The Psychology of Family Life in Early Modern France. 1970.

George Huppert, Les Bourgeois Gentilshommes: An Essay on the Definition of Elites in Renaissance France. 1977.

R. L. Kagan, Students and Society in Early Modern Spain. 1974.

Richard Kieckhefer, European Witch Trials: their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500, (London: Routledge, 1976)

Robert M. Kingdon, Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion in France, 1555-1563. 1956.

__________. Geneva and the Consolidation of the French Protestant Movement, 1564-1572. 1967.

__________. Myths About the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacres, 1572-1576. 1988.

Brian P. Levack, The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, (London: Longman, 1987)

Early Modern European Witchcraft: centres and peripheries, (Oxford, 1990)

Witchcraft in early modern Europe: studies in culture and belief, (Cambridge, 1996)

E. LeRoy Ladurie, Carnival in Romans. 1979.

__________. Love, Death and Money in the Pays D'Oc. 1980.

John. H. Langbein, Prosecuting Crime in the Renaissance: England, Germany, and France. 1974.

__________. Torture and the Law of Proof: Europe and England in the Ancien Regime. 1976.

Renee Levine Melammed, Heretics or Daughters of Israel?  The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile, (Oxford, 1999)

William Monter, Frontiers of heresy, (Cambridge: 1990)

__________. Judging the French Reformation: heresy trials by sixteenth-century parlements, (Cambridge, 1999)

__________.  Witchcraft in France and Switzerland: the borderlands during the Reformation, (Cornell, 1976)

Robert Muchembled, Popular Culture and Elite Culture in France, (1985)

Kristen Neuschel, Word of Honor: Interpreting Noble Culture in Seventeenth Century France. 1989.

Steven Ozment, Magdalena and Balthazar: An Intimate Portrait of Life in 16th Century Europe Revealed in the Letters of a Nuremberg Husband and Wife. 1986.

__________. The Burgermeister's Daughter. Scandal in a Sixteenth-Century German Town. 1996 (DD 901 .S3652 O96 1996)

__________. When Fathers Ruled. 1983.

Mary Elizabeth Perry, Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville (1990)

Hermann Rebel, Peasant Classes: The Bureaucratization of Property and Family Relations Under Early Hapsburg Absolutism, 1511-1626. 1983.

Lyndal Roper, Oedipus and the Devil: witchcraft, sexuality, and religion in early modern Europe, (London: Routledge, 1994)

David Sabean, Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany.

John H. Salmon, Renaissance and Revolt: Essays in the Intellectual and Social History of Early Modern France. 1987.

Ellery Schalk, From Valor to Pedigree: Ideas of Nobility in France in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. 1986.

Simon Schama, The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age. (1987)

Robert W. Scribner, For the Sake of Simple Folk: Popular Propaganda for the German Reformation. 1981.

J. A. Sharpe, Crime in Early Modern England, 1550-1750.

John Smail, The Origins of Middle-Class Culture. Halifax, Yorkshire, 1660-1780. Cornell UP 1994 DA 690 H17 S63 1994

Gerald Strauss, Luther's House of Learning: Indoctrination of the Young in the German Reformation.

Lawrence Stone, The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800. 1977.

Roy Strong, The Cult of Elizabeth: Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantry.

H. R. Trevor-Roper, The European witch-craze of the 16th and 17th centuries, (1969)

Frances Yates, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age.

Merry Weisner, Working Women in Renaissance Germany.

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