Peace in the Post-Reformation. (Reviews).(Book Review)

John Bossy, Peace in the Post-Reformation

The Birkbeck Lectures 1995. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. $49.95. ISBN: 0-521-64061-X.

The Birkbeck lectures are a series of four talks on a related theme given by a distinguished scholar. Past speakers include Outram Evennett and Denys Hay, whose Birkbeck lectures inspired redefinitions of the Counter Reformation and the fifteenth-century Italian church, respectively. In his lectures, collected in this volume, Bossy is aware of Evennett and Hay's contributions and suggests, like them, a new perspective for studies on post-Reformation Europe. His success is, however, somewhat mixed. …