Life writing in Reformation Europe
Subtitle: lives of reformers by friends, disciples and foes
By: By Irena Backus.
Series: St Andrews studies in Reformation history
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780754660552
Subjects: Reformation -- Biography; Europe -- Church history -- 16th century; Europe -- Church history -- 17th century
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Luther: instrument of God or Satan's brood. Main developments in Luther biography, 1546-1581; title: Lives of chief Swiss reformers: hagiographies, historical accounts and exempla; title: Zurich lives in the latter part of the sixteenth century; title: Early lives of Calvin and Beza by friends and foes; title: Post-Masson views of Calvin: Catholic and Protestant image of Calvin in the seventeenth century or the birth of "Calvinography."