Publications

Refusing to Kiss the Slipper: Opposition to Calvinism in the Francophone Reformation, Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

A Reformation Sourcebook: Documents from an Age of Debate. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.

Epistolae Petri Vireti: The Previously Unedited Letters and a Register of the Correspondence of Pierre Viret. Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 494. Geneva: Droz, 2012.

Calvinism’s First Battleground: Conflict and Reform in the Pays de Vaud, 1528-1559. Studies in Early Modern Religious Reforms 4. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005. French translation published as Le Premier Champ de Bataille du Calvinisme: Conflits dans le Pays de Vaud 1528-1559. Marianne Enckell, trans. Lausanne: Editions Antipodes, 2011.

“Ulrich Zwingli and the Pays de Vaud.” In Die Zürcher Reformation in Europa: Beiträge der Tagung des Instituts für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte, 6.-8. Februar 2019 in Zürich, edited by Ariane Albisser and Peter Opitz, 357-73. Zürcher Beiträge zur Reformationsgeschichte 29. Zurich: Theologischer Verlag, 2021.

“Guillaume Farel et les réformateurs de langue allemande: Les origines de la doctrine réformée dans l’espace romand.” In La Construction internationale de la Réforme et l’espace romand à l’époque de Martin Luther, edited by Daniela Solfaroli Camillocci, et al., 49-62. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021.

“The Pays de Vaud: First Frontier of the Genevan Reformation.” In A Companion to the Reformation in Geneva, edited by Jon Balserak, 118-39. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Traditions. Leiden: Brill, 2021.

“Before the Histoire Ecclésiastique: Theodore Beza’s Unknown Apologetic History of the Lausanne Pastors and Professors.” In Theodore Beza at 500: New Perspectives on an Old Reformer, edited by Kirk Summers and Scott Manetsch, 57-76. Refo500 Academic Studies 74. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021.

 “Calvin’s Friends: Farel, Viret, Beza.” In John Calvin in Context, edited by R. Ward Holder, 319-25. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

“Calvin, Farel, Roussel, and the French ‘Nicodemites.’” In Calvin and the Early Reformation, edited by Brian Brewer and David Whitford, 113-24. Leiden: Brill, 2020.

“Ministers and Magistrates: The Excommunication Debate in Lausanne in 1558.” In A Sourcebook of Early Modern History: Life, Death, and Everything in Between, edited by Ute Lotz-Heumann, 221-222. London: Routledge, 2019.

“The Lausanne Theses on the Ministry and the Sacraments (1547-1548).” Zwingliana 44 (2017): 417-43.

“Un nouvel éclairage sur l’académie de Lausanne, à partir de la correspondance inédite de Pierre Viret.” In La naissance des académies protestantes (Lausanne, 1537-Strasbourg, 1538) et la diffusion du modèle, edited by Monique Vénuat and Ruxandra Vulcan, 36-47. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2017.

“Francophone Territories Allied with the Confederation.” In A Companion to the Swiss Reformation, edited by Amy Burnett and Emidio Campi, 362-88. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 72. Leiden: Brill, 2016. German translation: “Die verbündeten französischsprachigen Gebiete der Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft.” In Die schweizerische Reformation: Ein Handbuch, German edition edited by Martin Ernst Hirzel and Frank Mathwig, 367-94. Zurich: Theologischer Verlag, 2017.

“Pierre Viret’s Epistolary Life and Corpus.” In Pierre Viret et la diffusion de la Réforme, edited by Karine Crousaz and Daniela Solfaroli Camillocci, 219-34. Lausanne: Antipodes, 2014.

“La Réforme et la période bernoise.” In La Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Lausanne: Monument européen, temple vaudois, edited by Peter Kurmann, 39-41. Lausanne: Bibliothèque des Arts, 2012.

Michael Bruening and Karine Crousaz. “Les actes du Synode de Lausanne (1538): Un rapport sur les résistances à la Réforme dans le Pays de Vaud (introduction, édition, traduction). Revue Historique Vaudoise 119 (2011), 89-126.

“Triumvirs, patriarchs, or friends? Evaluating the relationship between Calvin, Viret, and Farel.” Reformation & Renaissance Review 10.2 (2008): 125-36.

“Pierre Viret and Geneva,” Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 99 (2008): 175-97.

“La nouvelle réformation de Lausanne: The Proposal by the Ministers of Lausanne on Ecclesiastical Discipline (June 1558).” Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance 68, no. 1 (2006): 21-50.

Link to my collaborative, open-access critical edition of Sebastian Castellio’s correspondence: https://sites.mst.edu/bruening/castellio-correspondence-project/