CHAPTER IV
FRANCE
SOURCES.
A. Molinier, H. Hauser, E. Bourgeois (et autres): Les Sources de l'histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'en 1815. Deuxième Partie. Le XVIe siècle, 1494-1610, par. II. Hauser. 4 vols. 1906-1915. (Valuable, critical bibliography of sources).
Recueil générale des anciennes lois francaises, par Isambert, Decrusy, Armet. Tomes 12-15 (1514-1610). 1826 ff.
Ordonnances des rois de France. Règne de François I. 10 vols. 1902-8.
Michel de L'Hôpital: Oeuvres complètes, ed. Dufey. 4 vols. 1824-5.
Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris sons le règne de François Ier (1515-36), ed. par L. Lalanne. 1854.
Commentaires de Blaise de Monluc, ed. P. Courtreault. 2 vols. 1911 ff.
Mémoires-journaux du duc de Guise 1547-61, ed. Michaud et Poujoulat. 1839.
Oeuvres complètes de Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, ed. par L. Lalanne, 11 vols. 1864-82.
Histoire Ecclésiastique des Églises reformées au Royaume de France, ed. G. Baum et E. Cunitz, 3 vols. 1883-9. (This history first appeared anonymously in 1580 in 3 vols. The place of publication is given as Antwerp, but probably it was really Geneva. The author has been thought by many to be Theodore Beza.)
Memoires of the Duke of Sully. English translation in Bohn's Library. 3 vols. No date.
Crespin: Histoire des martyrs, persecutés et mis à mort pour la verité de l' Évangile. Ed. of 1619.
Mémoires de Martin et de Guillaume du Bellay, ed. par V. L. Bourilly et F. Vindry. 4 vols. 1908-1920.
Correspondance des Réformateurs dans les pays de langue française, pub. par A. L. Herminjard. 9 vols. 1878 ff.
J. Fraikin: Nonciatures de la France. Vol. i, Clement VII, 1906.
Lettres de Catherine de Médicis, publiées par H. de la Ferrière et B. de Puchesse. 10 vols. Paris. 1880-1909.
Catalogue générale de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Actes Royaux. Vol. i, 1910.
LITERATURE.
A. M. Whitehead: Gaspard de Coligny. 1904.
Louis Batiffol: The Century of the Renaissance, translated from the
French by E. F. Buckley, with an introduction by J. E. C. Bodley. 1916.
J. W. Thompson: The Wars of Religion in France 1559-76. 1909.
E. Lavisse: Histoire de France. Tome Cinquième. I. Les guerres d' Italie. La France sous Charles VIII, Louis XII et François I, par H. Lemonnier. 1903. II. La lutte contre la maison d'Autriche. La France sous Henri II, par H. Lemonnier. 1904. Tome Sixième. I. La Réforme et la Ligue. L'Édit de Nantes (1559-98), par J. H. Mariéjol. 1904. (Standard work).
H. M. Baird: The Rise of the Huguenots in France, 2 vols. 1879.
H. M. Baird: The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre. 2 vols. 1886.
H. N. Williams: Henri II. 1910.
E. Marcks: Gaspard von Coligny: sein Leben und das Frankreich seiner Zeit. 1892. (Excellent, only Volume I, taking Coligny to 1560, has appeared).
P. Imbart de la Tour: Les Origines de la Réforme. I. La France Moderne. 1905. II. L'Eglise Catholique et la Crise de la Renaissance. 1909. III. L'Évangélisme (1521-38). 1914. (Excellent work, social and cultural rather than political).
E. Sichel: Catherine de' Medici and the French Reformation. 1905.
E. Sichel: The Later Years of Catherine de' Medici. 1908.
C. E. du Boulay: Historia Universitatis Parisiensis. Tomus VI. 1673.
J. Michelet: Histoire de France. Vols. 8-10. First edition 1855 ff. (A beautiful book; though naturally superseded in part, it may still be read with profit).
W. Heubi: François I et le mouvement intellectuel en France. 1914.
A. Autin: L' Échec de la Réforme en France au XVI, siècle.
Contribution à l' Histoire du Sentiment Religieux. 1918.
L. Romier: Les Origines Politiques des Guerres de Religion. 2 vols. 1911-13.
L. Romier: "Les Protestants français à la veille des guerres civiles," Revue Historique, vol. 124, 1917, pp. lff, 225 ff.
E. Armstrong: The French Wars of Religion. 1892.
C. G. Kelley: French Protestantism 1559-62. Johns Hopkins University
Studies, vol. xxxvi, no. 4. 1919.
N. Weiss: La Chambre Ardente. 1889.
CHAPTER V. THE NETHERLANDS
H. Pirenne: Bibliographie de l'Histoire de Belgique. Catalogue des sources et des ouvrages principaux relatifs à l'histoire de tous les Pays-Bas jusq'en 1598.[2] 1902.
SOURCES:
Kervyn de Lettenhove: Relations politiques des Pays-Bas et d'Angleterre. 10 vols. 1882-91. (Covers 1556-76).
Resolution der Staaten-Generaal 1576-1609. Door N. Japikse. As yet 4 vols. (1576-84.) 1915-19.
Corpus documentorum Inquisitionis . . . Neerlandicae . . . Uitgegeven door P. Predericq. Vols. 4-6, 1900 ff.
Bibliotheca Reformatoria Neerlandica . . . Uitgegeven door S. Cramer en F. Pijper. 1903-14. 10 vols.
Collectanea van Gerardus Geldenhauer Noviomagus . . . Uitgegeven . . . door J. Prinsen. 1901.
La Chasse aux Luthériens des Pays-Bas. Souvenirs de Francisco de Enzinas. Paris. 1910. (Memoirs of a Spanish Protestant in the Netherlands. This edition is beautifully illustrated).
Correspondance de Guillaume le Taciturne, publiée . . . par M. Gachard. 1847-57. 6 vols.
Correspondance de Philippe II sur les affaires des Pays-Bas, publiee . . . par M. Gachard. 5 vols. 1848-79.
H. Grotius: The Annals and History of the Low Country-Wars, Rendered into English by T. M[anley]. 1665.
Calendar of State Papers, Foreign, of Elizabeth, ed. J. Stevenson and others. London 1863-1916. (19 volumes to date; much material on the Netherlands).
LITERATURE.
H. Pirenne: Histoire de Belgique. Vols 3 and 4. 1907-11. (Standard work. A German translation by F. Arnheim was published of the third volume in 1907, before the French edition, and of the 4th volume, revised and slightly improved, in 1915).
P. J. Blok: History of the People of the Netherlands. Translated by
Ruth Putnam. Part 2, 1907, Part 3, 1900. (Also a standard work).
E. Grossart: Charles V et Philippe II. 1910.
Felix Rachfahl: Wilhelm von Oranien und der niederländische Aufstand.
Vols. 1 and 2. 1906-8.
Ruth Putnam: William the Silent (Heroes of the Nations). 1911.
P. Kalkoff: Anfänge der Gegenreformation in den Niederlanden. 1903.
(Monograph of value).
Geschiedenis van de Hervorming en de Hervormde Kerk der Nederlanden, door J. Reitsma. Derde, bijgewerkte en vermeerderde Druk beworkt door L. A. von Langeraad . . . en bezorgd door F. Reitsma. 1916.
J. I. Motley: The Rise of the Dutch Republic. 1855. (A classic, naturally in part superseded by later research).
J. F. Motley: The Life and Death of John of Oldenbarneveld. 1873.
J. C. Squire: William the Silent. (1918).
CHAPTER VI. ENGLAND 1509-88
Bibliographies in Cambridge Modern History, and in the Political
History of England, by Pollard and Fisher, for which see below.
SOURCES:
Letters and papers, foreign and domestic, of the reign of Henry VIII, arranged by J. S. Brewer, J. Gairdner and R. H. Brodie. 20 vols. (Monumental).
Similar series of "Calendars of State Papers" have been published for
English papers preserved at Rome (1 vol. 1916), Spain, (15 vols.),
Venice (22 vols), Ireland (10 vols.), Domestic of Edward VI, Mary,
Elizabeth and James (12 vols.), Foreign Edward VI (1 vol.), Mary (1
vol.), Elizabeth (19 vols. to 1585). Milan (1 vol. 1912).
The English Garner: Tudor Tracts 1532-88, ed. E. Arber. 8 vols. 1877-96.
Documents illustrative of English Church History, compiled by H. Gee and W. J. Hardy. 1896.
Select Statutes and other Constitutional Documents 1558-1625, ed. G. W. Prothero.[2] 1898.
The Statutes of the Realm, printed by command of George III. 1819 ff.
Select Cases before the King's Council in Star Chamber, ed. I. S. Leadam. Vol. 2, 1509-44. Selden Society. 1911.
Original Letters, ed. by Sir H. Ellis. 1st series, 3 vols. 1824; 2d series 4 vols. 1827; 3 series 4 vols. 1846.
LITERATURE:
H. A. L. Fisher: Political History of England 1485-1547. New edition 1913. (Political History of England edited by W. Hunt and R. L. Poole, vol. 5. Standard work).
A. F. Pollard: Political History of England 1547-1603. 1910. (Political History of England ed. by Hunt and Poole, vol. 6. Standard work).
A. D. Innes: England under the Tudors. 1905.
H. Gee: The Reformation Period. 1909. (Handbooks of English Church
History).
J. Gairdner: Lollardy and the Reformation. 4 vols. 1908 ff.
(Written by an immensely learned man with a very strong high-church
Anglican bias).
Preserved Smith: "Luther and Henry VIII," English Historical Review, xxv, 656 ff, 1910.
Preserved Smith: "German Opinion of the Divorce of Henry VIII," English Historical Review, xxvii, 671 ff, 1912.
Preserved Smith: "Hans Luft of Marburg," Nation, May 16, 1912.
Preserved Smith: "News for Bibliophiles," Nation, May 29, 1913. (On early English translations of Luther).
Preserved Smith: "Martin Luther and England," Nation, Dec. 17, 1914.
Preserved Smith: "Complete List of Works of Luther in English," Lutheran Quarterly, October, 1918.
E. R. Adair: "The Statute of Proclamations," English Historical
Review, xxxii, 34 ff. 1917.
Lord Ernest Hamilton: Elizabethan Ulster. (1919).
Peter Guilday: The English Catholic Refugees on the Continent 1558-1795. Vol. 1. 1914. (Brilliant study).
A. F. Pollard: England under Protector Somerset. 1900.
A. F. Pollard: Henry VIII. 1902.
A. F. Pollard: Thomas Cranmer. 1906.
J. H. Pollen: The English Catholics in the Reign of Elizabeth. 1920.
F. A. Gasquet: The Eve of the Reformation. New ed. 1900.
E. B. Merriman: The Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell. 2 vols. 1902. (Valuable).
A. O. Meyer: England und die katholische Kirche unter Elizabeth. 1911. (Thorough and brilliant). Said to be translated into English, 1916.
L. Trésal: Les origines du schisme anglican 1509-71. 1908.
A. J. Klein: Intolerance in the Reign of Elizabeth. 1917.
J. A. Froude: History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the
Armada. 12 vols. 1854-70. (Still the best picture of the time.
Strongly royalist and Protestant, some errors in detail, brilliantly
written).
Dictionary of National Biography, ed. by Leslie Stephens and Sidney Lee. 63 vois. 1887-1900.
Carlos B. Lumsden: The Dawn of Modern England 1509-25. 1910.
Richard Bagwell: Ireland under the Tudors. 3 vols. 1885.
H. Holloway: The Reformation in Ireland. 1919.
Mrs. J. R. Green: The Making of Ireland and its Undoing 1200-1600. First edition 1908; revised and corrected 1909. (Nationalist; interesting).
H. N. Birt: The Elizabethan Religions Settlement. 1907.
W. Walch: England's Fight with the Papacy. 1912.
R. G. Usher: The Rise and Fall of High Commission. 1913.
Die Wittenberger Artikel von 1536, hg. von G. Mentz. 1905.
R. G. Usher: The Presbyterian Movement 1582-9. 1905.