This accessible general history places the Reformation in the Low Countries within its broader political and religious context.

The Revolt of the Netherlands has long been familiar to English-speaking readers, but the Reformation there has remained largely a closed book. The Reformation

Offers comparative perspectives and fresh insights into the unfolding of the Reformation across the whole of Europe.

Both in our time and in the past, death was one of the most important aspects of anyone’s life. The early modern period saw drastic changes in rites of death,