The Age of the Reformation

by Preserved Smith

Rapin Thoyras: Histoire d'Angleterre. 1723ff.

Johann Lorenz Mosheim: Institutiones historiae christianae recentiores. 1741.

Montesquieu: Esprit des Lois, 1748, Livre xxiv, chaps. 2, 5, 25;
Livre xxv, chap. 2, 6, 11.

Frederick II (called The Great) of Prussia: De la Superstition et de la Religion. 1749. (Oeuvres, 1846, i, 204 ff).

Voltaire: Essai sur les moeurs et l' esprit des nations, et sur les principaux faits de l' histoire depuis Charlemagne jusqu'à Louis XIII. 1754. (Cf. also a passage in his Dictionnaire philosophique).

David Hume: History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688. The volumes on the Tudor period came out in 1759.

William Robertson: A History of Scotland. 1759.

William Robertson: History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. 1769.

Edward Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 1776-88.
(On the Reformation, chap. liv, end).

Encyclopédie, 1778, s.v. "Luthéranisme." (Anonymous article).