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by
PRESERVED SMITH, Ph.D.
New York
Henry Holt and Company
American Historical Series
General Editor
Charles H. Haskins
Professor of History in Harvard University
Copyright, 1920
by
Henry Holt and Company
The excuse for writing another history of the Reformation is the needfor putting that movement in its proper relations to the economic andintellectual revolutions of the sixteenth century. The labor of lovenecessary for the accomplishment of this task has employed most of myleisure for the last six years and has been my companion throughvicissitudes of sorrow and of joy. A large part of the pleasurederived from the task has come from association with friends who havegenerously put their time and thought at my disposal. First of all,Professor Charles H. Haskins, of Harvard, having read the whole inmanuscript and in proof with care, has thus given me the unstintedbenefit of his deep learning, and of his ripe and sane judgment. Nextto him the book owes most to my kind friend, the Rev. Professor WilliamWalker Rockwell, of Union Seminary, who has added to the many otherfavors he has done me a careful revision of Chapters I to VIII, ChapterXIV, and a part of Chapter IX. Though unknown to me personally, theRev. Dr. Peter Guilday, of the Catholic University of Washington,consented, with gracious, characteristic urbanity, to read Chapters VIand VIII and a part of Chapter I. I am grateful to Professor N. S. B.Gras, of the University of Minnesota, for reading tha