Reformations Compared: Religious Transformations across Early Modern Europe

Reformations Compared presents a collection of comparative studies of the Reformation as it reverberated across Europe in the sixteenth century. Each chapter is focused on two or more comparable geographical spaces, isolating the variables that help explain how and why the Reformation unfolded as it did in each separate setting. Rejecting notions of insularity, the contributors seek out the connections and contrasts that shaped the experience of the Reformation, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, and from Ireland to Transylvania. In doing so, the volume offers a fresh understanding of the conditions in which the movement succeeded, whether wholly or partially, and those in which it did not. Reformations Compared provides a broad vantage point which encourages readers to reshape their understanding of this decisive episode in European history.

Henry A. Jefferies is a Research Associate in History at Ulster University. His research interests include the Irish Church and religion in the late medieval and early modern eras, with a recent focus on women and religion in Tudor Ireland. Previous publications include Priests and Prelates of Armagh in the Age of Reformations (1997) and The Irish Church and the Tudor Reformations (2010).

Richard Rex is Professor of Reformation History at the University of Cambridge. His research interests encompass the Reformation on both sides of the 'German Ocean' across the late medieval and the early modern era. Previous publications include Henry VIII and the English Reformation (1992; 2nd edn. 2006), The Lollards (2002), and The Making of Martin Luther (2017).