📚 The Reformation

Luther, Calvin, and the fracture of western Christendom: printed theses, wars of religion, and a Bible in the vernacular.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject reformation in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Colloquia	Desiderius Erasmus	1519	132
	Institutio Christianae religionis	Jean Calvin	1536	120
	John Knox and the Reformation	Andrew Lang	1905	62
	Abrégé de l'histoire ecclésiastique	Bonaventure Racine	1752	28
	A history of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland	William Cobbett	1824	27
	The social & political ideas of some great thinkers of the Renaissance and the Reformation	F. J. C. Hearnshaw	1925	22
	The Story of Civilization VI	Will Durant	1957	21
	How the Reformation happened	Hilaire Belloc	1928	20
	Reformation Europe, 1517-1559	Geoffrey Rudolph Elton	1963	19
	Era of the Protestant Revolution	Frederic Seebohm	1874	18
	A history of the Reformation	Thomas M. Lindsay	1906	18
	Lollardy And The Reformation In England	James Gairdner	1908	18
	The reformation	George Park Fisher	1873	17
	Characters of the Reformation	Hilaire Belloc	1936	16
	The crisis of the Reformation	Norman Sykes	1938	14
	Martin Luther	Martin Brecht	1981	14
	The English Reformation	Arthur Geoffrey Dickens	1964	13
	Here I stand	Roland Herbert Bainton	1950	12
	Luther	Hartmann Grisar	1911	11
	The age of the Reformation	Preserved Smith	1920	11
	Here I stand	Roland H. Bainton	1950	11
	The Reformation	Williston Walker	1900	10
	The Reformation era, 1500-1650	Harold John Grimm	1954	10
	The printing press as an agent of change	Elizabeth L. Eisenstein	1979	10
	The Oxford reformers	Frederic Seebohm	1869	9
	Thomas Cranmer and the English reformation, 1489-1556	A. F. Pollard	1904	9
	The Reformation of the sixteenth century	Roland Herbert Bainton	1952	9
	Young man Luther	Erik H. Erikson	1958	9
	The Reformation (Great Ages of Man)	Edith Simon	1966	9
	Reformation writings of Martin Luther	Martin Luther	1952	8

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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