Atlas of the European Reformations

It begins with a time line of the Reformation starting in 1302 with the Papal Bull Unam Sanctum and ending in 1662 with the ejecting of puritan clergy from the Church of England. In between it lists all the major developments: religious, political, military, literary, and technological of the time.It then moves to a series of maps that offers the reader a satellite view, as it were, of the Reformation. The first map is of the universities and the year in which they were established. This is very useful as almost all the reformers, Wycliffe, Hus, Luther, Calvin, et al, came out of the universities. The next map has a serious error, as it conflates the movement started by Peter Waldo, a medieval forerunner of the Reformation, with the Waldensians. The Waldensians refers to “people of the valley” religious dissenters dating from the first century, they never recognized the primacy of the pope, and they retreated into the remote valleys of the Alps and Pyrenees. There are several videos on YouTube that explain their history.The map showing the spread of the Lollards is especially instructive, as it predicts all the areas where Protestantism would establish its first footholds in England and Scotland and closely aligns where Puritanism would be strongest.The map of the Hussites and Hussite wars is instructive, and tragically predicts the shape of the Thirty Years War, and I recommend comparing the two maps.This atlas also charts the rise of printing. I was surprised by how slowly it spread, Gutenberg launched his first press in 1456, it took until the end of the century to spread across Europe, and even then printing centers were concentrated almost entirely in the capital cities and a handful of the major trading centers.After that the Atlas concentrates on the spread of the Protestantism with the consequent ensuing wars of religion.I really don't see how anyone can understand the Reformation without looking at these maps.

Excellent maps. Very clear. Useful for reference, review, or required reading. All in my opinion, of course.

Excellent work of historical scholarship. Keep on hand for easy reference when reading other books.

Historical background is excellent! Maps are clear and carefully plotted. Great resource!

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I had never heard of this publisher before, but I like browsing atlases, so I picked this off the shelf to look and wound up reading it all. It's a short book. The text is admirably brief and the maps are excellent. It wanders a little from the overall topic of reformation by including voyages of discovery, but also includes Ignatius Loyola and Francis Xavier, the Jesuit missions to Japan, the German Peasant's War, the German Knights' War and much else that often gets sidelined in general histories. This is an excellent resource. It might also make a good review for a final exam on some related college class.I was struck by a couple of the maps. We all know about the early English universities, but in Scotland? Turns out Aberdeen dates to 1494 and St. Andrews to 1413. The map titled "First Universities of Europe 1160- 1600" is amazing--there are scores of them on the map and taken together must represent a major driver for cultural and intellectual change. Another, "The Rise of Printing," shows European presses before 1500, and there are scads of them on the map; the sheer number of printing establishments and the sheer number of universities represent a major complex of technologies that partly explain (and are partly explained by) the Reformation. Lastly is a map of the Jesuit "reductions" in and around Paraguay--I knew that there were several but had no idea there were dozens of them.

Perfect! Concise, precise, informative and very high quality. Great job! Thanks a lot! Very useful