Yale University Library Research Guides: Early Modern Christian History: Other Select Topics

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The Reformation of the Image by Joseph Leo Koerner Considers why religious imagery during the Reformation did not disappear along with indulgences. Argues that Protestant religious imagery itself is at once both iconic and iconoclastic.
Albrecht Durer's Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation, and the Art of Faith by David Hotchkiss Price A comprehensive analysis of Renaissance humanism as the foundation for Albrecht Dürer's religious art and, in particular, for Dürer's reception of the Reformation movements.
The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation (Online) by Steven Ozment Retells and revises the story of the German Renaissance and Reformation through the lives of two controversial men of the sixteenth century: the Saxon court painter Lucas Cranach (the Serpent) and the Wittenberg monk-turned-reformer Martin Luther (the Lamb).
Images and Relics: Theological Perceptions and Visual Images in Sixteenth-Century Europe by John Dillenberger A comprehensive account of the relation between the visual arts and theological currents in Europe during the first half of the sixteenth century. Examines the works of Matthias Grunewald, Albrecht Durer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Michelangelo, Hans Holbein the Younger, Hans Baldung Grien, and Albrecht Altdorfer.

The Reformation and Art (The MET) An introductory essay on the most famous artists during the Reformation period. Includes bibliography.

Oxford Studies in Historical Theology Nearly 130 monographs on various topics relating to historical theology. Includes multiple titles on the Reformation and Enlightenment eras.
St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History A series of over 160 monographs on Reformation history. Focusing initially on ecclesiastical issues surrounding Protestant reform, the series quickly generated research that underlined how the effects of the Reformation spread to virtually every corner of Europe, both Protestant and Catholic, in areas such as family life, education, literature, music, art and philosophy, to political theory, international relations, economics, colonial ventures, science and military matters.

Reformers in the Wings: From Geiler von Kaysersberg to Theodore Beza by David C. Steinmetz Pprovides brief and accessible portraits of twenty of the secondary theologians of the Reformation period. In addition to describing a particular theologian, each portrait explores one problem in 16th-century Christian thought. Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, and Radical thinkers are all represented in this volume.
Profiles of Radical Reformers: Biographical Sketches from Thomas Müntzer to Paracelsus by Hans-Jürgen Goertz
Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation (Online) by P. G. Bietenholz (Editor); Thomas B. Deutscher (Editor) Contains biographical information about more than 1900 people mentioned in the correspondence and other writings of Erasmus.
Protestants: A History from Wittenberg to Pennsylvania, 1517-1740 by C. Scott Dixon Presents a comprehensive thematic history of the rise and influence of the branches of Christianity that emerged out of the Protestant Reformation.

Mysticism in the Reformation (1500-1650) by Bernard McGinn An account of the role of the mystical element of Christianity in the Reformers who broke with Rome in the period 1500-1650. Includes discussion on Luther, the Radical Reformers, and Anglicans in relation to mysticism.
Mysticism in the Golden Age of Spain (1500-1650) by Bernard McGinn A history of the influence of Spain on Christian mysticism during the Reformation.
The Persistence of Mysticism in Catholic Europe: France, Italy, and Germany, 1500-1675 by Bernard McGinn Completes the account of Early Modern mysticism of the period 1500-1650/1675 found in the Volume VI of The Presence of God. VI, Part 1 dealt with mysticism in the Reformation, while VI, Part 2 treated Spanish mysticism. This volume deals with the other Catholic areas, concentrating on France.
The Crisis of Mysticism: Quietism in Seventeenth-Century Spain, Italy, and France by Bernard McGinn The Crisis of Mysticism is the first book in English in seventy years to give a full account of the struggle over mystical spirituality that tore the Catholic Church apart at the end of the seventeenth century, resulting in papal condemnation of some mystics and the decline of mysticism in Catholicism for almost two centuries.

The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science by Peter Harrison Examines the role played by the Bible in the emergence of natural science. He shows how both the contents of the Bible, and more particularly the way it was interpreted, had a profound influence on conceptions of nature from the third century to the seventeenth. The rise of modern science is linked to the Protestant approach to texts.
The Roman Inquisition: Trying Galileo (Online) by Thomas F. Mayer Presents a detailed and corrective reconstruction of the actions both in the courtroom and behind the scenes that led to one of history's most notorious verdicts, Galileo Galilei.
Galileo: Watcher of the Skies (Online) by David Wootton A provocative and penetrating new life of Galileo, placing the man, his achievements, and his failures in the broader history of the Scientific Revolution.

William Tyndale: A Biography by David Daniell A major biography on William Tyndale that sets the story of his life in the intellectual and literary contexts of his immense achievement and explores his influence on the theology, literature, and humanism of Renaissance and Reformation Europe.
John Wyclif: Myth and Reality by G. R. Evans An engaging biography of John Wyclif written from an evangelical perspective.
Architect of Reformation: An Introduction to Heinrich Bullinger by Bruce Gordon (Editor); Emidio Campi (Editor) Offers an introduction to Heinrich Bullinger's life and theology from various disciplines.
Jan Hus: The Life and Death of a Preacher (Online) by Pavel Soukup Looking for Hus's significance in his own time, this treatment tells a story of a late medieval intellectual who--through his dedicated pursuit of what he understood as his mission--generated conflict and eventually brought execution upon himself.