Scott H. Hendrix was born in 1942 at Columbia, South Carolina, and earned a Ph.D. in Reformation studies from Tübingen University in Germany. In 2007 he retired from a professorship in Reformation history at Princeton Seminary and now lives in North Carolina. His interest in the Reformation stems from growing up in Lutheran churches and from college and seminary courses in history. During his teaching career, he received a Fulbright research grant and other awards, but some of the books listed here were also stimulated by questions from students and by the urge to discover the motives that led many medieval Europeans to cast aside the religion of their ancestors in order to adopt new versions of Christianity offered by the reformers of sixteenth-century Europe.