The Reformed faith secured a partial success and toleration in Poland, Hungary, Transylvania,
Bohemia and Moravia, but suffered severely by the Jesuitical reaction, especially in Bohemia. In
Italy and Spain the Reformation was completely suppressed; and it is only since the overthrow of
the temporal rule of the Pope in 1871, that Protestants are allowed to hold public worship in Rome
and to build churches or chapels.
§ 14. General Literature on the Reformation.
SOURCES.
I. On The Protestant Side: (1) The works of the Reformers, especially Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli,
Calvin, Cranmer, Knox. They will be quoted in the chapters relating to their history.
(2) Contemporary Historians: Joh. Sleidan (Prof. of law in Strassburg, d. 1556): De Statu Religionis
et Reipublicae Carolo V. Caesare commentarii. Libri XXVI. Argentor. 1555 fol., best ed. by
Am Ende, Francof. ad M. 1785–86, 3 vols. Engl. transl. by Bohun, London, 1689, 3 vols. fol.
French transl. with the notes of Le Courayer, 1767. Embraces the German and Swiss
Reformation.
The Annales Reformationis of Spalatin, and the Historia Reformationis of Fr. Myconius, refer only
to the Lutheran Reformation. So, also, Löscher’s valuable collection of documents, 3 vols. See
below § 15.
II. Roman Catholic: (1) Official documents. Leonis X. P. M. Regesta, ed. by Cardinal Hergenröther
under the auspices of Pope Leo XIII., from the Vatican archives. Freiburg i. B. 1884 sqq., 12
fascic. The first three parts contain 384 pages to a.d. 1514.—Monumenta Reformationis
Lutheranae ex tabulariis secretioribus S. Sedis, 1521–’25, ed. by Petrus Balan, Ratisbonae,
1884 (589 pages). Contains the acts relating to the Diet of Worms, with the reports of Aleander,
the papal legate, and the letters of Clement VII. from 1523–’25. It includes a document of 1513,
heretofore unknown, which disproves the illegitimate birth of Clement VII. and represents him
as the son of Giuliano de Medici and his wife, Florets. Monumenta Saeculi XVI. Historiam
illustrantia, ed. by Balan, vol. I. Oeniponte, 1885 (489 pages).
(2) Controversial writings: Joh. Eck (d. 1563): Contra Ludderum, 1530. 2 Parts fol. Polemical
treatises on the Primacy, Penance, the Mass, Purgatory etc. Jo. Cochlaeus (canon of Breslau,
d. 1552): Commentaria de Actis et Scriptis Lutheri ab Anno Dom. 1517 ad A. 1547 fideliter
conscripta. Mogunt. 1549 fol.; Par. 1565; Colon. 1568.—Laur. Surius (a learned Carthusian,
d. at Cologne, 1578): Commentarius rerum in orbe gestarum ab a. 1500–1564. Colon. 1567.
Against Sleidan.
Historical Representations.
I. Protestant Works.
(1) The respective sections in the General Church Histories of Schröckh (Kirchengesch. seit der
Reformation, Leipzig, 1804–’12, 10 vols.), Mosheim, Gieseler (Bd. III. Abth. I. and II., 1840
and 1852; Engl. transl. N. Y. vols. IV. and V., 1862 and 1880), Baur (Bd. IV. 1863), Hagenbach
(vol. III., also separately publ. 4th ed. 1870; Engl. transl. by Miss Eveline Moore, Edinburgh,
1878, 2 vols.; especially good on the Zwinglian Reformation). More briefly treated in the
compends of Guericke, Neidner, Hase (11th ed. 1886), Ebrard, Herzog (vol. IIIrd), Kurtz (10th
ed. 887, vol. IInd).