The Reformation in France and Italy to c. 1560: a review of recent contributions and debates

Introduction The organizers of this conference asked me to sketch out the broad lines of the recent historiography of the French and Italian Reformations: to set the scene and mark out the terrain. My first response was to list the major publications of the participants in this gathering. This list of works grew until it greatly exceeded the wordand time-limits of this paper. Just to describe the most important books – let alone the more than 6,000 items in John Tedeschi’s bibliography of The..