Religion and Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800
"An accomplished account by a leading authority - strongly recommended for all early modern survey courses." --Beat Kümin, Associate Professor in History, University of Warwick"Von Greyerz'sReligion and Cultureis the first book to examine the entire range of its subject from the late Middle Ages to the 18th century. It is based on an encyclopaedic knowledge of the era and written from a truly European perspective, free from any trace of intellectual or national bias. Perhaps its most unusual feature is that von Greyerz successfully contextualizes religion without reducing it to a function of something else. For anyone who wants the big picture of how the Protestant and Catholic reformations change European culture, this is the book." --Thomas A. Brady, Jr.,Peder Sather Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley"Engagingly written, jammed with interesting information, and one of the few modern surveys in English to consider in detail the relationship of the Reformation to Western secularism and take a long perspective on the Reformation's significance." --Choice