443 pages, indexed and annotated. Apart from a gift inscription on the front end paper, the book is in excellent condition, as if unread."By any reckoning the Reformation has proved a giant among international movements of modern times -- a catalyst for dramatic changes in intellectual life, social behavior, and material conditions. The authors examine the whole field of historical writing on this major segment of modern Western history, from its earliest struggle over the meaning of Christianity to the emergence of larger questions of human freedom, the development of objective attitudes, and research into social-religious structures. The Reformation in Historical Though will become the standard critical guide to the main developments of Reformation studies, as well as a stimulus to further research. Its vast scope and penetrating analysis will make it a classic of early modern European intellectual history. (Publisher) CONTENTS: Views from within: early historians and controversialists Weapons of propaganda: the martyrologies A middle way: Tudor historians and politicians A sense of distance: French historians in the age of religious wars An age of crisis: the seventeenth century An age of optimism: the eighteenth century New directions: Ranke and some contemporaries Polemics transcended: the church historians Rediscovered dimensions: the Reformation radicals Materialist perspectives: the Marxists Models and patterns: the social scientists The secular setting: the social historians.