BIBLIOGRAPHY #3: Bucer & the Reformation in the Cities

1. MARTIN BUCER & OTHER LEADING REFORMERS

Mariano DiGangi, Peter Martyr Vermigli, 1499-1562: Renaissance Man, Reformation Master (Landham: University

Press of America, 1993).

James M. Estes, Christian Magistrate and State Church: the Reforming Career of Johannes Brenz (Toronto:

University of Toronto Press, 1982), paperback, $30.

Brian A. Gerrish, Reformers in Profile (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1967). Essays by leading scholars.
Hans-Jurgen Goertz, Thomas Muntzer: Apocalyptic, Mystic, and Revolutionary (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1993).
Eric W. Gritsch, Thomas Muntzer: A Tragedy of Errors, Fortress (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989).
Eric W. Gritsch, Reformer Without a Church: The Life and Thought of Thomas Muntzer, 1488-1525 (Philadelphia:

Fortress Press, 1967).

James M. Kittelson, Wolfgang Capito: From Humanist to Reformer, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Thought

17 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1975).

Clyde Leonard Manschreck, Melanchthon, the Quiet Reformer (Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1975).
Philip McNair, Peter Martyr in Italy: An Anatomy of Apostasy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967).
Calvin Augustine Pater, Karlstadt as the Father of the Baptism Movement (Toronto: University of Toronto Press,

1984), hardcover, $80.

Gordon Rupp, Patterns of Reformation (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1969). A valuable study of Oecolampadius,

Karlstadt, Muntzer.

Tom Scott, Thomas Muntzer: Theology and Revolution in the German Reformation (New York: St. Martin’s Press,

1989).

Robert J. Sider, Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt: Development of His Thought, 1517-1525, Studies in Medieval

and Renaissance Thought 11 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1974).

David C. Steinmetz, Reformers in the Wings (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1971).
W.P. Stephens, The Holy Spirit in the Theology of Martin Bucer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970).
Robert Stupperich, Melanchthon, trans. Robert H. Fischer (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1965).
D.F. Wright, Martin Bucer: Reforming Church and Community (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994),

hardcover, $60. NEW.

2. REFORMATION IN THE CITIES

Steven Ozment, The Reformation in the Cities: The Appeal of Protestantism to Sixteenth-Century Germany and

Switzerland (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975) paperback, $15. The Reformation quickly took root
in most of the imperial cities of the Empire. Ozment studies how so many came over to the Protestant side:
the mix of polemical preaching, humorous pamphlets, decrees from city magistrates. This provides
important perspectives on the Reformation as a grass-roots movement--how the great theological debates
fueled and were fueled by popular sentiment

Steven Ozment, Protestants: Birth of a Revolution (New York: Doubleday, 1992) paperback, $15. Basically an

updating, a recasting, and popularizing of his earlier Reformation in the Cities. It includes some new
research on family life.

Lorna Jane Abray, The People’s Reformation : Magistrates, Clergy, and Commons in Strasbourg, 1500-1598 (Ithaca,

NY: Cornell University Press, 1985) hardcover, $40.

Mark U. Edwards, Printing, Propaganda, and Martin Luther (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994),

hardcover, $45.

Carlos Eire, War Against the Idols: the Reformation of Worship from Erasmus to Calvin (Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 1989), paperback, $21.

Bernd Moeller, Imperial Cities and the Reformation: Three Essays (reprint: Labyrinth Press, 1982). Out of print.

Classic essays.

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R. Po-Chia Hsia, ed., German People and the Reformation (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988) paperback,

$16.

R. Po-Chia Hsia, Social Discipline in the Reformation: Central Europe 1550-1750 (New York: Routledge, 1992)

paperback, $18

Andrew Pettegree, ed., The Reformation of the Parishes : The Ministry and the Reformation in Town and Country

(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993), hardcover, $70.

Paul A. Russell, Lay Theology in the Reformation: Popular Pamphleteers in Southwest Germany, 1521-1525, (New

York: Cambridge University Press, 1986).

R.W. Scribner, For the Sake of Simple Folk : Popular Propaganda for the German Reformation (Oxford: Clarendon

Press / Oxford University Press, 1994).