>From Remote Reformation Texts
I use S. Ozment's _The Age of Reform 1250-1550_, which provides a lot of the
intellectual background as well as a good survey of Reformation thought. It
is, however, useless for England, so for that, I use Christopher Haigh's
_English Reformations_. My students have reacted quite well to both; they
were particularly enthusiastic about the Haigh when I used it for the first
time last year. Hans Hillerbrand's _The Protestant Reformation_ has already
been mentioned. There is also a good collection called _Confessions and
Catechisms of the Reformation_ ed. by Mark Noll, which includes a lot of
useful things Hillerbrand leaves out, especially the Augsburg Confession and
some of the Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent. John Dillenberger
has a reader of Luther's writings. And there's a volume in the Cambridge
History of Political Thought called _Luther and Calvin on Secular Authority_.
Lucy Moye
Hillsdale College
lucy.moye@ac.hillsdale.edu