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During the Coronavirus pandemic Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year gained a new popularity. Despite being an account of one ma...

As one of the preeminent scholars of the English Reformation I have always found Eamon Duffy's work to be insightful and interesting. De...

This is a fascinating little book. Its author is a Christian radical whose purpose in exploring the ideas of the German radical Thomas Müntz...

Lyndal Roper is one of the most prominent historians of Germany in the Reformation era. Her books include an excellent biography of Martin L...

When Martin Luther penned his 95 Theses against the Church he began a process that was to have far reaching implications. It would have far ...

This is an engaging book about European Jews and the Reformation. It mostly examines how Jews were perceived and treated before, during and ...

Tom Scott is a distinguished historian of the German Peasant War and Reformation, and this, his biography of the radical Christian theologis...

This collection of essays stands out among the plethora of books to come out of the 450th anniversary of the German Peasant War in 1975. As ...

Short biographies of Martin Luther are other famous Reformation figures are ubiquitous in the museums and shops of Lutherstadt-Wittenberg. M...

Reading Peter Stanford's biography of Martin Luther in Wittenberg itself was a very stimulating experience. Stanford's book is the f...

Bob Scribner's "new" social and economic history of Germany is part of an academic series of works aiming to give a detailed a...

There is no doubt that Neil Davidson's How Revolutionary were the Bourgeois Revolutions is a piece of remarkable scholarly work, and de...

Early modern England was a society in transformation. On the one hand capitalist social relations were beginning to shape almost every aspec...