The Swiss Reformation

Bruce Gordon's history traces the Reformation across the Swiss Confederation and its jointly governed Mandated Territories, arguing the movement has to be understood through the Confederation's own fluid political structures, the legacy of the mercenary trade and the leadership of Huldrych Zwingli and, after Zwingli's death, Heinrich Bullinger. Its chapters on "War and Disaster, 1529 to 1534" reconstruct the First and Second Wars of Kappel, the confessional standoff in the jointly governed territories that produced them, Zwingli's death at the Battle of Kappel, and the confessional settlement that followed. Gordon was, at the time of publication, Lecturer in Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Deputy Director of its Reformation Studies Institute, later Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School.