The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol. 2: The Reformation, 1520-1559

This is the second,volume  of a familiar standard work, first published in 1958. It describes the open conflicts of the Reformation from Luther's first challenge to the uneasy peace of the 1560s. Reforming movements in all the principal countries are discussed against the background of constitutional development and the political struggles of the ruling dynasties. Europe's relations with the outside world are given due prominence.