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list of contributorsJapan and China. Among Cooper’s published works are They Came to Japan (1965,1995), Rodrigues the Interpreter (1974),and João Rodrigues’s Account of SixteenthCentury Japan (2001). He is at presentwriting a book on the Japanese mission toEurope in the 1580s.Barbara B. Diefendorf is Professor ofHistory at Boston University. She is theauthor of Paris City Councillors in the Sixteenth Century: The Politics of Patrimony(1983) and Beneath the Cross: Catholicsand Huguenots in Sixteenth-Century Paris(1991). Her recently completed study ofpious women and the Catholic Reformation in France will be published by Oxford.Massimo Firpo is Professor of ModernHistory at the University of Turin. Hismost recent books concerning the religiouscrisis in sixteenth-century Italy are Riformaprotestante ed eresie nell’Italia del Cinquecento: Un profilo storico (1993), Gli affreschi di Pontormo a San Lorenzo: Eresia,politica e cultura nella Firenze di Cosimo I(1997), Dal sacco di Roma all’Inquisizione:Studi su Juan de Valdés e la Riforma italiana (1998), Artisti, gioiellieri, eretici: Ilmondo di Lorenzo Lotto tra Riforma eControriforma (2001), and Studi sulla vitareligiosa nel Cinquecento italiano (2003).Hans-Jürgen Goertz is Professor of Socialand Economic History at the Universityof Hamburg. He is the author of manystudies on the radical Reformation inGermany. Recent books include ThomasMüntzer: Apocalyptic Mystic and Visionary(1993), Antiklerikalismus und Reformation: Sozialgeschichtliche Untersuchungen (1995), and Anabaptists (1996).Bruce Gordon is Reader in Modern Historyand Deputy Director of the ReformationStudies Institute at the University of St.Andrews. He has recently published (withPeter Marshall) The Place of the Dead:Death and Remembrance in Late Medievaland Early Modern Europe (2000) and atranslation of Hans Guggisberg, SebastianCastellio, Humanist and Defender ofReligious Toleration in a Confessional Age(2003). His most recent book is The SwissReformation (2002).ixBrad S. Gregory is Associate Professor ofHistory at Stanford University. His firstbook, Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe, was published in 1999 and received six bookawards. He is also the editor of The Forgotten Writings of the Mennonite Martyrs,published in 2002.Kaspar von Greyerz is Professor of Historyat the University of Basel. His books include Late City Reformation in Germany:The Case of Colmar, 1522–1628 (1980),England im Jahrhundert der Revolutionen1603–1714 (1994), and Religion undKultur: Europa 1500–1800 (2000).Christopher Haigh teaches history at theUniversity of Oxford. His major publications include The Reign of Elizabeth I(1984), The English Reformation Revised(1987), Elizabeth I (1988, 2nd ed. 1998),and English Reformations: Religion, Politicsand Society under the Tudors (1993). He isnow writing on the official church and itsparishioners in post-Reformation England.R. Po-chia Hsia is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University. He has published several bookson Reformation Germany and the historyof anti-Semitism. Recent books includeThe World of Catholic Renewal 1540–1770 (1998), translated into German andItalian. He is now working on the relationsbetween Catholic Europe and Chinabetween the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. He is an elected member of theAcademia Sinica, Taiwan.Benjamin J. Kaplan is Professor of DutchHistory at University College London, andhe holds an appointment in early modernreligious history at the University ofAmsterdam. His publications includeCalvinists and Libertines: Confession andCommunity in Utrecht, 1578–1620, whichreceived the Philip Schaff Prize and theRoland Bainton Prize in History andTheology. Kaplan’s current book project,titled Divided by Faith, is a social history ofreligious toleration in early modern Europe.Robert M. Kingdon is Professor Emeritusof History at the University of WisconsinMadison. He has been involved in a

xlist of contributorsnumber of editions of documents of theReformation period, most recently of theRegistres du Consistoire de Genève au tempsde Calvin, vols. 1 and 2 (1996, 2001), withT. A. Lambert, I. M. Watt, and M. W.McDonald. He has also written a numberof books and articles on aspects of thehistory of the Calvinist Reformation, including Myths about the St. Bartholomew’sDay Massacres, 1572–1576 (1988) andAdultery and Divorce in Calvin’s Geneva(1995).Robert Kolb is Missions Professor of Systematic Theology, Concordia Seminary,Saint Louis, Missouri, and was associateeditor and editor of The Sixteenth CenturyJournal (1973–94, 1994–7). He is theauthor of Martin Luther as Prophet,Teacher, and Hero: Images of the Reformer,1520–1620 (1999), Luther’s Heirs DefineHis Legacy: Studies on Lutheran Confessionalization (1996), and co-editor, withTimothy J. Wengert, of The Book ofConcord: The Confessions of the EvangelicalLutheran Church (2000).Amy E. Leonard received her PhD in historyfrom the University of California atBerkeley in 1999. She is Assistant Professorof History at Georgetown University,Washington, DC, and President of theSociety for Early Modern Catholic Studies.She has just completed a manuscript onDominican nuns in Strasbourg, titled“Nails in the Wall: Catholic Nuns inReformation Strasbourg.”William Monter is Professor Emeritus ofHistory at Northwestern. Among recentpublications are “The Fate of the Frenchand English Reformations, 1555–1563,”Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance,64 (2002), 7–19; “The Roman Inquisitionand Protestant Heresy Executions in16th-Century Europe,” in Atti del Simposio internazionale sull’Inquisizione (29–31ottobre 1998), ed. Agostino Borromeo(2003), pp. 535–44; and “Witch-Trials inContinental Europe, 1560–1660,” in S.Clark and B. Ankarloo, eds., The AthloneHistory of Witchcraft, vol. 5 (2002), pp.1–79.John W. O’Malley is Professor of ChurchHistory, Weston Jesuit School of Theology,Cambridge, MA. He is a Fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciencesand member of the American PhilosophicalSociety; past president of the AmericanCatholic Historical Association and of theRenaissance Society of America; author ofPraise and Blame in Renaissance Rome, TheFirst Jesuits, Trent and All That; and coeditor of The Jesuits: Cultures, Sciences, andthe Arts, 1540–1773.José Pedro Paiva studied for his PhD at theEuropean University Institute (Florence)and is Professor Auxiliar at the Faculty ofArts of the University of Coimbra. Hismain research fields are popular culture andreligious and ecclesiastical history duringthe modern age. His publications includeBruxaria e superstição num país sem caça àsbruxas: 1600–1774 (1997) and five chaptersin the more recent religious history ofPortugal, História Religiosa de Portuga,ed. Carlos Moreira Azevedo (2000), vol. 2.He also edited Religious Ceremonialsand Images: Power and Social Meaning(1400–1750) (2002).James R. Palmitessa is Associate Professorat Western Michigan State University. Heis the author of Material Culture and DailyLife in the New City of Prague in the Age ofRudolf II (1997) and “The Prague Uprising of 1611: Property, Politics and CatholicRenewal in the Early Years of HabsburgRule,” Central European History, 31/4(1998). He is working on a book onPrague on the eve of the Thirty Years’ War.Tom Scott is Reader in History at the University of Liverpool and received his LittDfrom the University of Cambridge (2002).Relevant publications include Freiburg andthe Breisgau: Town–Country Relations inthe Age of Reformation and Peasants’ War(1986); Thomas Muentzer: Theology andRevolution in the German Reformation(1989); (ed. with Bob Scribner), TheGerman Peasants’ War: A History inDocuments (1991); Regional Identity andEconomic Change: The Upper Rhine,1450–1600 (1997); (ed.), The Peasantries

list of contributorsof Europe from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries (1998); and Society andEconomy in Germany, 1300–1600 (2002).James A. Sharpe is a Professor at the University of York, England. His early researches were into the field of crime inearly modern England, a subject on whichhe published extensively. More recently hehas turned his attention to witchcraft, andhas a number of publications on thesubject, notably Instruments of Darkness:Witchcraft in England 1550–1750 (1996).Current research interests include the history of violence in England and the legalsystem of the early modern Isle of Man.Joke Spaans teaches the history of Christianity at the University of Amsterdam. She isthe author and editor of the followingbooks: Een golf van beroering: De omstredenopwekking in de Republiek in het middenvan de achttiende eeuw (2001); Armenzorgin Friesland, 1500–1800. Publieke zorg enparticuliere liefdadigheid in zes Friesesteden: Leeuwarden, Bolsward, Franeker,Sneek, Dokkum en Harlingen (1998);and Haarlem na de Reformatie: Stedelijkecultuur en kerkelijk leven 1577–1620(1989).Larissa Taylor is Associate Professor ofHistory at Colby College. She is the authorof Soldiers of Christ: Preaching in LateMedieval and Reformation France (1992;paperback edition 2003), winner of the JohnNicholas Brown Prize of the MediaevalAcademy of America, as well as Heresy andOrthodoxy in Sixteenth-Century Paris(1999) and Preachers and People in theReformations and Early Modern Period(2001). A specialist in late medieval preaching, her current research focuses on pilgrimage and sacred space.Kevin Terraciano is an Associate Professor ofLatin American History at the University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles. His recent book,xiThe Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca, was published in 2001. Other recent publicationsinclude “Crime and Culture in ColonialMexico: The Case of the Mixtec MurderNote,” Ethnohistory, 45/4 (1998) and“The Colonial Mixtec Community,” Hispanic American Historical Review, 80/1(2000). In 2001, he won the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award.István György Tóth is Professor of History at the Central European University,Budapest, and Head of the Early ModernHistory Department at the Institute ofHistory of the Hungarian Academy. Hismain interests are the social and culturalhistory of early modern central Europe.Recent publications include Literacyand Written Culture in Early ModernCentral Europe (1999), “Hungarian Cultural History in the Early Modern Age,” inLaszlo Kosa, ed., A Cultural History ofHungary (1999), Litterae missionariorumde Hungaria et Transylvania 1572–1717(2002, Latin texts with English introduction). He is editor-in-chief of the Millennium History of Hungary (2001, inHungarian; English edition in preparation).Ines G. Županov is a Research Fellow at theCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. She has taught earlymodern history at the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley, at Jawaharlal NehruUniversity in New Delhi, and at the Écoledes Hautes Études en Sciences Socialesin Paris. She is author of Disputed Mission:Jesuit Experiments and BrahmanicalKnowledge in Seventeenth-Century India(1999). Her articles in English, French,Portuguese, Italian, and Croatian arepublished in edited books and journals(Annales, Representations, Etnosistemi,Studies in History, Indian Economic andSocial History Journal, Archives de sciencessociales des religions, etc.).

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The Blackwell Companions to European Historyis a cornerstone of Blackwell’s . A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance A Companion to the Reformation World Edited by Guido Ruggiero Edited by R. Po-chia Hsia In preparation A Companion to Europe since 1945 A Companion to Europe 1900–1945 . Hans-Jürgen Goertzis Professor of Social and .