ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the literature on Reformation and Counterreformation in the Habsburgs’ Alpine patrimony. It focuses on studies that hold particular relevance for the history of Austrian Protestantism during the confessional era, with an emphasis on newer works in English and German, which will be most accessible for the bulk of the readership. With few exceptions, the chapter also focuses on works that examine distinctly Austrian or at least Habsburgian conditions. The rise and fall of Protestantism in early modern Austria constitutes another centerpiece of the period’s historiography. Scholars and theologians such as Gustav Reingrabner and Paul Dedic painstakingly documented the Protestant experience in the Austrian lands, with Rein-grabner focusing especially on the Danubian region and Dedic on the southern provinces of Styria and Carinthia. The literature on the Thirty Years’ War transcends this historiographical overview in both volume and scope, even if its major works are indispensable for the assessment of Austrian developments.
