Bainton, Roland H. Studies on the Reformation. Boston: Beacon Press, 1963, 289 p.

Centers on Martin Luther and on "the radicals of the reformation."

Buck, Lawrence P., and Jonathan W. Zophy, eds. The Social History of the Reformation. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1972, 397 p.

Addresses numerous aspects of the Reformation's social history, with essays on the control of morals in Calvin's Geneva, the dynamics of printing in the sixteenth century, "John Foxe and the Ladies," and other themes.

Durant, Will. The Reformation: A History of European Civilization from Wyclifto Calvin: 1300-1564. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957, 1025 p.

Examines the historical background and intellectual development of the Protestant Reformation.

Fernández-Armesto, Felipe, and Derek Wilson. Reformation. New York: Bantam, 1997, 324 p.

Overview of the historical and cultural context of the Reformation and the later artistic and religious movements it made possible.

Friesen, Abraham. Reformation and Utopia: The Marxist Interpretation of the Reformation and Its Antecedents. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1974, 271 p.

Surveys the development of the Marxist interpretation of the Protestant Reformation.

Grimm, Harold. "The Legacy of the Reformation," in The Reformation Era: 1500-1650, pp. 569-616. 1954. Reprint, Macmillan, 1965.

Presents a brief overview of the major literary works of the Protestant Reformation.

Hillerbrand, Hans J. The World of the Reformation. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973, 229 p.

Explores the impact of the Protestant Reformation on the politics of European nations.

Holl, Karl. The Cultural Significance of the Reformation, Translated by Karl Hertz, Barbara Hertz, and John H. Lichtblau. New York: Meridian Books, 1959, 191 p.

Argues that the Reformation encouraged the development of modern culture, particularly in its emphasis on education and individualism.

Hooykaas, R. "Science and Reformation." In The Protestant Ethic and Modernization: A Comparative View, edited by S. N. Eisenstadt, pp. 211-39. New York: Basic Books, 1968.

Argues that Calvinism and Puritanism, outgrowths of the Protestant Reformation, had a "stimulating influence" on scientific progress.

Kingdon, Robert M., ed. Transition and Revolution: Problems and Issues of European Renaissance and Reformation History. Minneapolis: Burgess Publishing Company, 1974, 274 p.

Surveys the intellectual and political history of the Renaissance and Protestant Reformation.

Kirk, James. Patterns of Reform: Continuity and Change in the Reformation Kirk. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1989, 516p.

Investigates the implications of Protestant ideas such as the doctrine of the "universal priesthood" in Scottish intellectual history and politics.

Kirk, Russell. The Roots of American Order. Malibu, California: Pepperdine University Press, 1978, 534 p.

Traces the influence of the Protestant Reformation on American society, philosophy and government.

Littell, Franklin H., ed. Reformation Studies: Essays in Honor of Roland H. Bainton. Richmond, Va.: John Knox Press, 1962, 285 p.

Collection of essays that "is so planned as to give attention both to the classical Reformation and to the often-neglected 'Left Wing' of the movement." Contains essays by such scholars as Waldo Beach and John H. Leith.

Lortz, Joseph. The Reformation in Germany. Volume 1. Translated by Ronald Walls. New York: Herder and Herder, 1968,488 p.

Argues that the Protestant Reformation resulted from a complex interaction of spiritual, political, and intellectual conditions.

McGrath, Alister E. Reformation Thought: An Introduction. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988, 212 p.

Examines the history of ideas that brought about and characterized the Reformation.

Overfield, James H. Humanism and Scholasticism in Late Medieval Germany. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984, 344 p.

Explores the intellectual struggle between scholasticism and humanism from the mid-fifteenth to the early sixteenth century.

Spitz, Leo W., ed. The Reformation: Material or Spiritual? Boston: D. C. Heath Co., 1962, 104 p.

Collection of essays by eminent critics of the Reformation, including Roland H. Bainton, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Erik H. Erikson.

Todd, John M. Reformation. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1971,377 p.

Provides a general historical introduction to the causes and development of the Protestant Reformation.