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See B. Gordon, the Swiss Reformation (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002), 283–316 Notes Introduction 1. For ‘International Zwinglianism’ see B. Gordon, The Swiss Reformation (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002), 283–316. D. MacCulloch, Reformation. Europe’s House Divided, 1490–1700 (London: Penguin, 2003), 253. 2. H. Oberman, ‘Calvin and Farel: the dynamics of legitimation in early Calvinism’, Journal of Early Modern History 2 (1998), 35. P. Benedict, Christ’s Churches Purely Reformed. A Social History of Calvinism (New Haven [CT]: Yale University Press, 2002), xxii–xxiii. 3. ‘Approbatae Constitutiones’, in Magyar Törvénytár. 1500–1848 évi erdélyi törvények (eds) S. Kolozsvári, K. Óvári, D. Márkus (Budapest, 1900), ‘Pars prima’, article 1/1/2. Chapter 1: Reformed Ideas 1. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Geneva, 1559) (ed.) H. Beveridge (2 vols), (Edinburgh: Calvin Translation Society, 1845), vol. 1, preface. For Calvin’s sermons, see for example Sermons of Maister John Calvin upon the Booke of Job (tr.) Arthur Golding (London, 1574). A. Ganoczy, The Young Calvin (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1988). Q. Breen, John Calvin: a study in French humanism (London: Archon, 1968). F. Wendel, Calvin. The origins and development of his religious thought (London: Collins, 1963). 125 126 NOTES 2. P. McNair, Peter Martyr in Italy. An anatomy of apostasy (Oxford: Clarendon, 1967). F. C. Church, The Italian Reformers, 1534–1564 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1932). 3. J. P. Donnelly, Calvinism and Scholasticism in Vermigli’s doctrine of man and grace (Leiden: Brill, 1976). R. A. Muller, The Unaccommodated Calvin. Studies in the foundation of a theological tradition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). D. Steinmetz, Calvin in Context (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995). J. P. Donnelly, ‘Italian influ- ence on the development of Calvinist scholasticism’, SCJ 7 (1976), 81–101. 4. Calvin, Institutes (1559), 4/1/9. W. J. Bouwsma, John Calvin. A sixteenth-century portrait (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), 215. 5. Theodore Beza, Confession de Foi du Chrétien (Geneva, 1558) (ed.) J. Clarke (Lewes: Focus Christian Ministries Trust, 1992), 73. 6. Reformed Confessions of the 16th Century (ed.) A. C. Cochrane (London: SCM Press, 1966), 154, 176–7, 210. 7. John Calvin, Excuse de Jehan Calvin, a Messieurs les Nicodemites, sur la complaincte qu’ilz sont de sa trop grand rigeur (Geneva, 1544) in Jean Calvin. Three French Treatises (ed.) F. Higman (London: Athlone Press, 1970), 131–53. B. C. Milner, Calvin’s Doctrine of the Church (Leiden: Brill, 1970). 8. Reformed Confessions (ed.) Cochrane (1966), 320. 9. Reformed Confessions (ed.) Cochrane (1966), 152–3. The French Confession was subject to ongoing revision by the national synod. 10. Philip Marnix van St Aldegonde, The Bee Hive of the Romishe Churche. Wherein the author a zealous Protestant, under the person of a superstitious Papist, doth so driely repell the grose opinions of Popery, and so divinely defend the articles of Christianitie, that (the sacred Scriptures excepted) there is not a booke to be founde, either more necessarie for thy profite, or sweeter for thy comfort (London, 1579), 187r–v. 11. Marnix, The Bee Hive of the Romishe Churche (1579), 338–44. 12. C. Z. Wiener, ‘The beleaguered isle. A study of Elizabethan and early Jacobean anti-Catholicism’, PP 51 (1971), 49. P. Lake, ‘The signifi- cance of the Elizabethan idenitification of the Pope as Antichrist’, JEH 31 (1980), 161–78. P. Lake, ‘William Bradshaw, Antichrist, and the community of the godly’, JEH 36 (1985), 570–89. R. G. Asch, ‘Antipopery and ecclesiastical policy in seventeenth-century Ireland’, AFR 83 (1992), 258–301. 13. Scots Confession, 1560, and Negative Confession, 1581 (ed.) G. D. Henderson (Edinburgh: Church of Scotland Publications, 1937). NOTES 127 14. C. Garside, Zwingli and the arts (New Haven [CT]: Yale University Press), 178. 15. L. P. Wandel, Always among us. Images of the poor in Zwingli’s Zurich (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990). R. Scribner, ‘Popular piety and modes of visual perception in late medieval and Reformation Germany’, Journal of Religious History 15 (1989), 448–69. C. C. Christensen, ‘Iconoclasm and the preservation of ecclesiastical art in reformation Nuernberg’, AFR 61 (1970), 205–21. 16. F. Higman, ‘The origins of the image of Geneva’, in J. B. Roney, M. I. Klauber (eds), The Identity of Geneva. The Christian Commonwealth, 1564–1864 (Westport [CT]: Greenwood Press, 1998), 27–9. 17. John Calvin, Advertissement tresutile du grand proffit qui reviendroit à la Chrestienté s’il se faisoit inventoire de tous les corps sainctz, et reliques qui sont tant en Italie, qu’en France, Allemaigne, Hespaigne, et autres Royaumes et pays (Geneva, 1543) in Three French Treatises (ed.) Higman (1970), 47–97. 18. Guillaume Farel, Du Vray Usage de la Croix de Iesus Christ, et de l’abus et de l’idolatrie commise autour d’icelle, et de l’authorité de la parole de Dieu, et des traditions humaines (1560). 19. Pierre Viret, Du Vray Usage de la Salutation faite par l’ange a la vierge Marie, et de la source des chadelets, et de la maniere de prier par conte, et de l’abus qui y est: et du vray moyen par laquel la vierge Marie peut estre honorée (1556). 20. Reformed Confessions (ed.) Cochrane (1966), 325. 21. L. P. Wandel, Voracious idols and violent hands. Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg, and Basel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). S. Ozment, The reformation in the cities. The appeal of Protestantism to sixteenth-century Germany and Switzerland (New Haven [CT]: Yale University Press, 1980). G. R. Potter, Zwingli (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976). 22. C. M. N. Eire, War Against the Idols. The Reformation of worship from Erasmus to Calvin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 111. 23. C. M. N. Eire, ‘Prelude to sedition? Calvin’s attack on Nicodemism and religious compromise’, AFR 76 (1985), 137. 24. D. McRoberts, ‘Material destruction caused by the Scottish reforma- tion’, in McRoberts (ed.), Essays on the Scottish reformation, 1513–1625 (Glasgow: Burns, 1962), 415–62. J. Dawson, ‘ “The face of ane perfyt Reformed kyrk”: St Andrews and the early Scottish reformation’, in J. Kirk (ed.), Humanism and Reform: The Church in Europe, England, and Scotland, 1400–1643. Essays in Honour of James K. Cameron (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991), 413–35. 128 NOTES 25. P. M. Crew, Calvinist Preaching and Iconoclasm in the Netherlands, 1544–69 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978). P. M. Crew, ‘The wonderyear. Reformed preaching and iconoclasm in the Netherlands’ in J. Obelkevich (ed.), Religion and the People, 800–1700 (Chapel Hill [NC]: University of North Carolina Press, 1979), 191–220. G. Marnef, Antwerp in the age of Reformation. Underground Protestantism in a commercial metropolis, 1550–1577 (Baltimore [PA]: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). 26. Philip Marnix, A true narrative and apology of what has happened in the Netherlands in the matter of religion in the year 1566 (1567), in E. H. Kossman, A. F. Mellink (eds), Texts Concerning the Revolt of the Netherlands (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974), 80–1. 27. W. Naphy, Documents on the Continental Reformation (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996), 85. 28. J. P. Meyer, Reformation in La Rochelle. Tradition and change in early mod- ern Europe, 1500–1568 (Geneva: Droz, 1996). P. Benedict, ‘The dynamics of Protestant militancy: France, 1555–1563’, in P. Benedict, G. Marnef, H. van Nierop, M. Venard (eds), Reformation, Revolt and Civil War in France and the Netherlands, 1555–1585 (Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy, 1999), 35–50. 29. B. Diefendorf, Beneath the Cross: Catholics and Huguenots in sixteenth- century Paris (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991). P. Benedict, Rouen during the Wars of Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). P. Roberts, A City in Conflict: Troyes during the French wars of religion (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996). N. Z. Davis, ‘The Rites of Violence: Religious riot in sixteenth-century France’, PP 59 (1973), 51–91. J. Davies, ‘Persecution and Protestantism: Toulouse, 1562–1572’, HJ 22 (1979), 31–51. J. Farr, ‘Popular religious solidarity in sixteenth-century Dijon’, French Historical Studies 14 (1985), 192–214. 30. ‘La Discipline Ecclesiastique des Eglises Reformées de France selon qu’elle a este arrestée aux Synodes nationaux par les deputes des provinces et ratifiée par toutes les Eglises, revue et confermee par le dernier Synode tenu a La Rochelle le 12 Avril 1571 et a Nismes le 7 May 1572’ (ed.) G. S. Sunshine, French History 4 (1990), 376. 31. P. Benedict, ‘The Saint Bartholomew’s massacres in the provinces’, HJ 21 (1978), 205–25. M. Greengrass, ‘The anatomy of a religious riot in Toulouse in May 1562’, JEH 34 (1983), 367–91. D. Nicholls, ‘Protestants, Catholics and magistrates in Tours, 1562–1572: The making of a Catholic city during the religious wars’, French History NOTES 129 8 (1994), 14–33. M. Konnert, ‘Urban values versus religious passion: Châlons-sur-Marne during the wars of religion’, SCJ 20 (1989), 387–405. M. Greengrass, France in the Age of Henri IV: The struggle for stability (2nd edn) (London: Longman, 1995). 32. S. Michalski, The Reformation and the visual arts. The Protestant image question in western and eastern Europe (London: Routledge, 1993), 76. 33. M. Aston, England’s Iconoclasts (Oxford: Clarendon, 1988). J. Phillips, The Reformation of Images: Destruction of Art in England, 1535–1660 (Berkeley [CA]: University of California Press, 1973). 34. H. Cohn, ‘The territorial princes in Germany’s second reformation, 1559–1622’, in M. Prestwich (ed.), International Calvinism, 1541–1715 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1985), 135–66. B. Nischan, ‘The Second Reformation in Brandenburg: aims and goals’, SCJ 14 (1983), 173–87. 35. Miscellaneous Writings and Letters of Thomas Cranmer. Parker Society vol. 24 (ed.) J. Cox (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1846), 431–4. Original Letters Relative to the English Reformation Written During the Reigns of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, and Queen Mary: Chiefly from the Archives of Zurich.
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