Category: History - European
In this volume I have endeavoured to fulfil the promise made in the former one to describe the Reformed Churches, the Anabaptist and Socinian movements and the Counter-Reformation in the sixteenth century.
Perhaps no one so thoroughly represents the sentiments which inspired the beginnings of the movement for Reformation in France as Marguerite d'Angoulême,[162] the sister of King...
23. CHAPTER III.The ancient constitution of the town, solemnly promulgated in 1387, recognised three different authorities within its walls: the Bishop, who was the sovereign or "Prince" of the...
42. vi. The Psalm-singing at the Pré-aux-Clercs, however, was regarded as a[Footnote 207: The family of Guise, who played such a leading part in French history from the reign of Henry II. on to the downfall of the League, became French in the person of...
40. CHAPTER VI.The idea conveyed in the term Inquisition is the punishment of spiritual or ecclesiastical offences by physical pains and penalties. It was no new conception in the Christian Ch...
25. CHAPTER V.It was not until 1581 that the _United Provinces_ took rank as a Protestant nation, notwithstanding the fact that the Netherlands furnished the first martyrs of the Reformation...
32. CHAPTER II.The old monotonous mode of describing Anabaptism has almost entirely disappeared with the modern careful examination of sources. It is no longer possible to sum up the movement...
26. CHAPTER VI.The history of her kings is a tale of assassinations, long minorities, regencies scrambled and fought for by unscrupulous barons; and kingly authority, which had been growing in...
22. CHAPTER II.Switzerland in the sixteenth century was like no other country in Europe. It was as divided as Germany or Italy, and yet it had a unity which they could not boast. It was a conf...
37. CHAPTER IV.The little mountainous province of Guipuzcoa, lying at the corner of the Bay of Biscay, bordering on France, was the district of Spain which produced one of the greatest of her...
27. CHAPTER I.The Church and people of England broke away from the mediæval papal ecclesiastical system in a manner so exceptional, that the rupture had not very much in common with the conte...
39. CHAPTER V.The General Council, the subject of many negotiations between the Emperor and the Pope, was at last finally fixed to meet at Trent in 1545.[696] The city was the capital of a sm...
30. CHAPTER IV.Mary Tudor's health had long been frail, and when it was known for certain that she would leave no direct heir (i.e. from about June 1558), the people of England were silently c...
36. CHAPTER III.Italy is the land which next to Spain is the most important for the Counter-Reformation. While we can trace in Spain and in Germany a certain solidarity of religious movement, t...
21. CHAPTER I.The Religious Peace of Augsburg (1555) secured the legal recognition of the Reformation within the Holy Roman Empire, and consequently within European polity. Henceforward State...
29. CHAPTER III.One of the last acts of the dying King had been to make a will regulating the succession. It was doubtless suggested to him by the Duke of Northumberland, but, once adopted, the...
28. CHAPTER II.When Henry VIII. died, in 1547 (Jan. 28th), the situation in England was difficult for those who came after him. A religious revolution had been half accomplished; a social revo...
41. iii. 424; and the letter of the two Councils written for the information[Footnote 92: The fullest contemporary account of these matters is to be found in _Un opuscule inédit de Farel; Le Resumé des actes de la Dispute de Rive de 1535_, published in...
33. CHAPTER III.The uncle, Lelio Sozzini (b. 1525), was by profession a lawyer. He was a man of irreproachable moral life, a Humanist by training, a student of the classics and also of theology...
35. CHAPTER II.The country, however, where all these various conceptions of what was meant by a reformation of the Church were combined in one definite scheme of reform which was carried throu...
31. CHAPTER I.The revolt of Luther was the occasion for the appearance--the outbreak, it might be called--of a large amount of irregular independent thinking upon religion and theology which...
34. CHAPTER I.In the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries the urgent need for a Reformation of the Church was recognised by all thoughtful men everywhere throughout w...
1. VOLUME IIIn this volume I have endeavoured to fulfil the promise made in the former one to describe the Reformed Churches, the Anabaptist and Socinian movements and the Counter-Reformati...
38. did. A few ladies of Barcelona were his earliest disciples, were thefirst to undergo the discipline of the _Exercises_, then in an imperfect shape, and encouraged him when he needed it most by their faith in him and his plans.[693] One of them,...
5. CHAPTER IV.4. CHAPTER III.7. CHAPTER VI.8. CHAPTER I.3. CHAPTER II.2. CHAPTER I.13. CHAPTER II.19. CHAPTER V.11. CHAPTER IV.9. CHAPTER II.10. CHAPTER III.6. CHAPTER V.17. CHAPTER III.14. CHAPTER III.16. CHAPTER II.18. CHAPTER IV.20. CHAPTER VI.15. CHAPTER I.12. CHAPTER I.