Contesting the Reformation provides a comprehensive survey of the most influential works in the field of Reformation studies from a comparative, cross-national, interdisciplinary perspective. Represents the only English-language single-authored synthetic study of Reformation historiographyAddresses both the English and the Continental debates on Reformation historyProvides a thematic approach which takes in the main trends in modern Reformation historyDraws on the most recent publications relating to Reformation studiesConsiders the social, political, cultural, and intellectual implications of the Reformation and the associated literature