Editing Early modern Europe (section)

=== Historiography ===
Margaret C. Jacob argues that there has been a dramatic shift in the historiography of the Reformation.  Until the 1960s, historians focused their attention largely on the great leaders and also the theologians of the 16th century, especially Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli.  Their ideas were studied in depth. However, the rise of the [[social history|new social history]] in the 1960s look at history from the bottom up, not from the top down. Historians began to concentrate on the values, beliefs and behavior of the people at large. She finds, "in contemporary scholarship, the Reformation was then seen as a vast cultural upheaval, a social and popular movement and textured and rich because of its diversity."<ref>{{cite book|author=Margaret C. Jacob|title=Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w9y1pF-Na3UC&pg=PA215|year=1991|page=215|publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199762798}}</ref>