Part one: On the edge. Rome, 1450 ; An age of breakthroughs ; Religion in late medieval Christendom ; Reform and dissent in the late Middle Ages ; Italian Humanism ; Humanism beyond Italy ; Forerunners of the Catholic Reformation
Part two: Protestants. Rome, 1510 ; Luther : from student to monk ; Luther : from rebel to heretic ; Luther : the reactionary ; The Swiss Reformation ; The Radical Reformation ; Calvin and Calvinism ; England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, 1521-1603
Part three: Catholics. Rome, 1564 ; Catholic reform : facing the challenge ; Catholic reform : healing the body of Christ ; Catholic reform : fashioning a new clergy ; Catholic reform : the Society of Jesus ; Missions to the New World ; Missions to the East Indies
Part four: Consequences. Rome, 1626 ; The age of religious wars ; The age of orthodoxy ; The confessional age ; The age of devils ; The age of reasonable doubt ; The age of outcomes ; The spirit of the age
Epilogue: Assessing the reformations.