Diarmaid MacCulloch's comprehensive history traces the Protestant and Catholic Reformations across Europe from 1490 to 1700, working through the documented events, figures and disputes of that two century span rather than presenting the Reformation as a single unified movement. That broad, event-by-event documentary method spanning both Protestant and Catholic sides is the book's real evidentiary basis. This record has not independently traced further scholarly disagreement with MacCulloch's specific claims since 2003. Use it for established historical facts about the Reformation and Counter-Reformation broadly; a claim specific to one resulting confession's own internal doctrine needs that confession's own statement of faith.
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Diarmaid MacCulloch's comprehensive standard scholarly history, working through the documented events, figures and disputes of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations from 1490 to 1700 rather than presenting the Reformation as a single unified movement. NotesDiarmaid MacCulloch's comprehensive standard scholarly history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations across Europe from 1490 to 1700. Use for established historical facts about the Reformation and Counter-Reformation broadly, including named events and figures; a general narrative history, not a source specific to the internal doctrine of any one resulting confession, which needs that confession's own statement of faith.
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AuthorDiarmaid MacCulloch
PublisherAllen Lane
Publication Year2003
URLhttps://archive.org/details/reformationeurop0000macc
Source TypeScholarly work
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This source names Europe directly: "and Catholic Reformations across Europe from 1490 to 1700, working through the documented events, figures and disputes of that two century span rather than presenting the Reformation as a single..."
Source Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700Diarmaid MacCulloch
Claims Backed By This Source (247 claims)
This source backs 247 claims across the atlas. As facts: 162 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 1 popular myth - corrected. As cited relationships: 43 holds, 1 connected. Plus 38 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Figures, 68 claims: 49 well-attested, 11 holds, 8 general references.
- Religious Events, 50 claims: 22 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 popular myth - corrected, 19 holds, 7 general references.
- Articles, 44 claims: 41 well-attested, 1 connected, 2 general references.
- Councils and Synods, 24 claims: 14 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 4 holds, 5 general references.
- Doctrines, 17 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds, 7 general references.
- Historical Figures, 16 claims: 15 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Cities, 13 claims: 2 well-attested, 5 holds, 6 general references.
- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Spread Events, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Religious Legal Instruments, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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162Articles
A Break About Jurisdiction Before It Was About DoctrineA Catholic Claim on the English ThroneA Confession Written to Be Heard, Not Just ReadA Council That Closed, and a Title That Outlived Its ReasonA Dutch Political Crisis Given an International SynodA Pope Besieged, and a King Who Could Not Be AnsweredA Reformation Carried by ParliamentEighteen Years in Three PeriodsElders and Assemblies Rather Than BishopsFour Settlements in Twenty Five YearsFourteen Articles Agreed and One RefusedFourteen Articles of AgreementHere I Stand, Probably NotHow an Indulgence Reached WittenbergHow Lutheranism Was Established in the German TerritoriesIndulgences and What FollowedLuther and the Three WallsLuther's Chalk, and a Division That HeldPersecuted by Both Sides, and What Descended from ItReform and Repression in the Same MovementStandardizing the Mass: The Tridentine ReformsSupreme Head, Supreme GovernorThe Baptism That Started ItThe Churches Left Outside the PeaceThe Five Articles and the Synod's AnswerThe Inquisitor Pope: Lepanto and ExcommunicationThe Settlement of 1559, Clause by ClauseThe Wartburg and the German BibleTrent, Valladolid and the Retirement at YusteTwo Kinds of DissatisfactionWhat a Council Can Actually FixWhat Else the Pontificate ContainsWhat Trent Built That LastedWhose Realm, His ReligionWhy It Moved So FastWorms, Augsburg and the Limits of an Emperor Showing 1 to 50 of 67 entities carrying this claim.
Popular myth - corrected
1General References
38Religious Legal Instruments
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