The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century

Roland H. Bainton presents the strands of the Reformation in a single coherent account. He discusses the background for Luther’s breach & its ramifications for 16th Century Europe, giving accounts of the Diet of Worms, the Holy Commonwealth of Geneva, Henry VIII’s break with Rome & William the Silent’s struggle for Dutch independence. ROLAND H. BAINTON (1894-1984), a specialist in Reformation history, was for forty-two years Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale, and he continued writing well into his twenty years of retirement.

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