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the Renaissance(New York, 1994); and the classic work by M. P. Gilmore, The World of Humanism, 1453– 1517(New York, 1962). Also valuable are T. K. Rabb, The Last Days of the Renaissance (New York, 2006), and S. Sider, Handbook to Life in Renaissance Europe(New York, 2005).

FAMILY AND MARRIAGE On family and marriage, see C. Klapisch-Zuber, Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy(Chicago, 1985). On women, see M. L. King, Women of the Renaissance(Chicago, 1991), and M. L. Brownand K. B. McBride, Women’s Roles During the Renaissance(New York, 2005).

ITALIAN CITY-STATES For studies of the Italian city-states, see J. M. Najemy, Italy in the Age of the Renaissance, 1300–1550(Oxford, 2004). There is an enormous literature on Renaissance Florence. A good introduction is J. M. Najemy, History of Florence, 1200–1575(London, 2006). See also G. Brucker, Florence: The Golden Age, 1138–1737(Berkeley, Calif., 1988), and L. Martines, April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici(Oxford, 2003). On the condottieri,see M. Mallett, Mercenaries and Their Masters: Warfare in Renaissance Italy(Totowa, N.J., 1974). Machiavelli’s life can be examined in Q. Skinner, Machiavelli (Oxford, 2000).

RENAISSANCE HUMANISM A good introduction to Renaissance humanism can be found in C. G. Nauert Jr., Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe,2nd ed (Cambridge, 2006). The fundamental work on fifteenth-century civic humanism is H. Baron, The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance,2nd ed. (Princeton, N.J., 1966). The impact of printing is exhaustively examined in E. Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change,2 vols. (New York, 1978). See also R. Mackenny, Renaissances: The Cultures of Italy, c. 1300–c. 1600 (New York, 2004).

RENAISSANCE ART Good surveys of Renaissance art include J. T. Paolettiand G. M. Radke, Art, Power, and Patronage in Renaissance Italy,3rd ed. (Upper Saddle River, N.J., 2003); C. Bucciand S. Buricchi, Renaissance Art (New York, 2007); R. Turner, Renaissance Florence: The Invention of a New Art(New York, 1997); P. F. Brown, Art and Life in Renaissance Venice(Upper Saddle River, N.J., 1997); and L. Murray, The High Renaissance(New York, 1967). POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTSFor general works on the political development of Europe in the Renaissance, see R. W. Winksand L. P. Wandel, Europe in a Wider World, 1350–1650(Oxford, 2003), and C. Mulgan, The Renaissance Monarchies, 1469–1558 (Cambridge, 1998). On France, see R. J. Knecht, The Rise and Fall of Renaissance France, 1483–1610, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 2001). Early Renaissance England is examined in J. R. Lander, Crown and Nobility, 1450–1509(London, 1976). Good coverage of Renaissance Spain can be found in J. N. Hillgarth, The Spanish Kingdoms, 1250–1516, vol. 2, Castilian Hegemony, 1410–1516(New York, 1978). On the Spanish Inquisition, see J. Perez, The Spanish Inquisition(New Haven, Conn., 2005). On the Ottomans and their expansion, see C. Imber, The Ottoman Empire, 1300–1650: The Structure of Power(New York, 2004).

THE CHURCH IN THE RENAISSANCE Aspects of the Renaissance papacy can be examined in G. Noel, The Renaissance Popes(New York, 2006), and M. Mallett, The Borgias(New York, 1969).

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CHAPTER 13

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century


A nineteenth-century engraving showing Luther before the Diet of Worms

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CHAPTER OUTLINE AND FOCUS QUESTIONS

Prelude to Reformation

What were the chief ideas of the Christian humanists, and how did they differ from the ideas of the Protestant reformers?

Martin Luther and the Reformation in Germany

What were Martin Luther’s main disagreements with the Roman Catholic Church, and what political, economic, and social conditions help explain why the movement he began spread so quickly across Europe?

The Spread of the Protestant Reformation

What were the main tenets of Lutheranism, Zwinglianism,

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