The Protestant Clergy of Early Modern Europe provides a comprehensive survey of the Protestant clergy in Europe during the confessional age. Eight contributions, written by historians with specialist research knowledge in the field, offer the reader a wide-ranging synthesis of the main concerns of current historiography. Themes include the origins and the evolution of the Protestant clergy during the age of Reformation, the role and function of the clergy in the context of early modern history, and the contribution of the clergy to the developments of the age (the making of confessions, education, the reform of culture, social and political thought).

JAY GOODALE Assistant Professor of History, Bucknell University BRUCE GORDON Reader in Modern History and Deputy Director of the Reformation Studies Institute, University of St. Andrews IAN GREEN Professor of Early Modern History, Queen's University, Belfast MARK GREENGRASS Researcher, University of Sheffield SUSAN C. KARANT-NUNN Professor of History and Director of the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, University of Arizona THOMAS KAUFFMANN Professor of Church History, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany R. EMMET MCLAUGHLIN Associate Professor of History, Villanova University R. N. SWANSON Professor of Medieval Ecclesiastical History, University of Birmingham