La Reforme en France et en Italie: contacts, comparaisons et contrastes

Abstract

This collection of essays forms the proceedings of the international colloquium on the Reformation in France and Italy that took place in Rome in 2005. It includes about thirty articles by leading historians of both the French and the Italian Reformation in English, French and Italian. The volume reflects the agenda that was set by the conference organizers that encouraged cross-fertilization and comparison between the different historiographical traditions represented. For a collection of this magnitude, the result is surprisingly cohesive and the articles often address each other reflecting the exchanges that took place orally during the conference. This makes this volume extremely stimulating to read as the essays often pick up historiographical points that are evoked elsewhere without repeating them. As Euan Cameron argues in the preface, the comparison attempted in this collection allows for the respective historiographies to take some distance from their national specificities and allows for previously...