... and disloyal, friend and enemy. As a result of the Protestant reformation in England, religion became a key divider between the dominant and the dominated sectors of society, this in itself being linked to attempts by the Protestant English state to colonize and Anglicize Ireland for both political...

...This chapter explores the radical dimension to the Protestant Reformation. It talks about Andreas Karlstadt, who took over the direction of the Reformation in Wittenberg and introduced a range of reforms after Martin Luther went into hiding between 1521 and 1522. It analyzes Karlstadt's written...

... establish the position Jews occupied in Christian thinking and society by the start of the Reformation era, and then moves on to the first waves of reform in the earliest decades of the sixteenth century in both the Catholic and Protestant realms. The book explores the radical dimension to the Protestant...

... and Protestants that had a long history in both Brazil and the wider world. It discusses the Capuchin Order the was founded in the midst of the Protestant Reformation, and one of the order's most important initial activities was seeking to reconvert individuals and families who had turned away from the Catholic...

...This chapter focuses on the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century. Following Henry VIII's break with Rome in 1531, the English Reformation led Britain into a protracted struggle with the two great Catholic powers, Spain and France, for the next 300 years. The long-term effect...

...This chapter describes the significant role played by the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution in the coming of the modern age. It discusses the consequences of the Reformation and the ways in which modernisation and modernity have been traditionally linked...

... Catholics, under pressure from a university still grappling with the legacy of the Protestant Reformation, had left the colleges. With religious discord at least nominally suppressed, the attention of Oxford's residents focused now instead on quotidian affairs. In the summer of 1577, shortly after Hakluyt's...

...This book presents the life of John Knox, a leader of the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth-century Scotland. Based in large part on previously unavailable sources, including the recently discovered papers of Knox's close friend and colleague Christopher Goodman, this biography challenges...