Home›Sources›Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700SourcesReformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/reformation-europes-house-divided-1490-1700.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/reformation-europes-house-divided-1490-1700Copy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-reformation-europe-s-house-divided-1490, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/reformation-europes-house-divided-1490-1700}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXDiarmaid MacCulloch's comprehensive history traces the Protestant and Catholic Reformations across Europe from 1490 to 1700, working through the documented events, figures and disputes of that two century span rather than presenting the Reformation as a single unified movement. That broad, event-by-event documentary method spanning both Protestant and Catholic sides is the book's real evidentiary basis. This record has not independently traced further scholarly disagreement with MacCulloch's specific claims since 2003. Use it for established historical facts about the Reformation and Counter-Reformation broadly; a claim specific to one resulting confession's own internal doctrine needs that confession's own statement of faith.FactsCross-Tradition ConnectionsClaims Backed By This Source (249 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1Diarmaid MacCulloch's comprehensive standard scholarly history, working through the documented events, figures and disputes of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations from 1490 to 1700 rather than presenting the Reformation as a single unified movement.NotesWell-attestedDiarmaid MacCulloch's comprehensive standard scholarly history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations across Europe from 1490 to 1700. Use for established historical facts about the Reformation and Counter-Reformation broadly, including named events and figures; a general narrative history, not a source specific to the internal doctrine of any one resulting confession, which needs that confession's own statement of faith.CitationAuthorWell-attestedDiarmaid MacCullochPublisherWell-attestedAllen LanePublication YearWell-attested2003URLWell-attestedhttps://archive.org/details/reformationeurop0000maccSource TypeWell-attestedScholarly workCross-Tradition ConnectionsAssociated WithEurope, Continents Well-attested This source names Europe directly: "and Catholic Reformations across Europe from 1490 to 1700, working through the documented events, figures and disputes of that two century span rather than presenting the Reformation as a single..."Source Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700Diarmaid MacCullochtier 1Claims Backed By This Source (249 claims)This source backs 249 claims across the atlas. As facts: 163 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 1 popular myth - corrected. As cited relationships: 43 holds, 1 connected. Plus 39 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicFigures, 69 claims: 50 well-attested, 11 holds, 8 general references.Religious Events, 50 claims: 22 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 popular myth - corrected, 19 holds, 7 general references.Articles, 44 claims: 41 well-attested, 1 connected, 2 general references.Councils and Synods, 24 claims: 14 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 4 holds, 5 general references.Doctrines, 17 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds, 7 general references.Historical Figures, 17 claims: 15 well-attested, 2 general references.Cities, 13 claims: 2 well-attested, 5 holds, 6 general references.Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.Spread Events, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.Religious Legal Instruments, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.Well-attested163ArticlesA Break About Jurisdiction Before It Was About DoctrineA Catholic Claim on the English ThroneA Confession Written to Be Heard, Not Just ReadA Council That Closed, and a Title That Outlived Its ReasonA Dutch Political Crisis Given an International SynodA Pope Besieged, and a King Who Could Not Be AnsweredA Reformation Carried by ParliamentEighteen Years in Three PeriodsElders and Assemblies Rather Than BishopsFour Settlements in Twenty Five YearsFourteen Articles Agreed and One RefusedFourteen Articles of AgreementHere I Stand, Probably NotHow an Indulgence Reached WittenbergHow Lutheranism Was Established in the German TerritoriesIndulgences and What FollowedLuther and the Three WallsLuther's Chalk, and a Division That HeldPersecuted by Both Sides, and What Descended from ItReform and Repression in the Same MovementStandardizing the Mass: The Tridentine ReformsSupreme Head, Supreme GovernorThe Baptism That Started ItThe Churches Left Outside the PeaceThe Five Articles and the Synod's AnswerThe Inquisitor Pope: Lepanto and ExcommunicationThe Settlement of 1559, Clause by ClauseThe Wartburg and the German BibleTrent, Valladolid and the Retirement at YusteTwo Kinds of DissatisfactionWhat a Council Can Actually FixWhat Else the Pontificate ContainsWhat Trent Built That LastedWhose Realm, His ReligionWhy It Moved So FastWorms, Augsburg and the Limits of an EmperorCitiesMarburgCouncils and SynodsThe Council of TrentThe Diet of AugsburgThe Marburg ColloquyThe Synod of DortDoctrinesCongregational PolityLaw and GospelPresbyterian PolityRegulative Principle of WorshipSola ScripturaThe Priesthood of All BelieversFiguresCharles V, Holy Roman EmperorClement VIIHeinrich BullingerShowing 1 to 50 of 67 entities carrying this claim. NextScholarly debate2Councils and SynodsThe Council of TrentReligious EventsThe Protestant ReformationPopular myth - corrected1Religious EventsThe Diet of WormsHolds43CitiesMarburgCouncils and SynodsThe Council of TrentThe Diet of AugsburgThe Marburg ColloquyThe Second Council of OrangeDoctrinesSola ScripturaThe Priesthood of All BelieversFiguresCharles V, Holy Roman EmperorJames VI and IJulius IIReligious EventsThe Counter ReformationThe Diet of WormsThe English ReformationThe Peace of AugsburgThe Protestant ReformationThe Radical ReformationThe Scottish ReformationSourcesReformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700Spread EventsLutheranism Is Established in the German TerritoriesConnected1ArticlesHow Lutheranism Was Established in the German TerritoriesGeneral References39ArticlesA Confession Written to Be Heard, Not Just ReadHow Lutheranism Was Established in the German TerritoriesCitiesConstanceDordrechtLondonMarburgParisTrentCouncils and SynodsThe Council of TrentThe Diet of AugsburgThe Marburg ColloquyThe Second Council of OrangeThe Synod of DortDoctrinesCongregational PolityLaw and GospelPresbyterian PolityRegulative Principle of WorshipSola FideSola ScripturaThe Priesthood of All BelieversFiguresCharles V, Holy Roman EmperorClement VIIHeinrich BullingerJames VI and IJohn KnoxJulius IILeo XPope Pius VHistorical FiguresElizabeth IMary, Queen of ScotsReligious EventsThe Counter ReformationThe Diet of WormsThe English ReformationThe Peace of AugsburgThe Protestant ReformationThe Radical ReformationThe Scottish ReformationReligious Legal InstrumentsThe Act of SupremacySpread EventsLutheranism Is Established in the German TerritoriesComments (0)No comments yet. 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