The following list of books, articles, and chapters is ordered chronologically, beginning with the most recent. It is a selective list, with the focus placed on the most significant publications as well as the range of interests to this point.
The Church in the Early Modern Age (London: I.B. Tauris, 2016) (I. B. Tauris History of the Christian Church)
Contesting the Reformation (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
Protestants: A History from Wittenberg to Pennsylvania, 1517-1740 (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
R.W. Scribner & C. Scott Dixon, The German Reformation (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003) (Japanese translation, 2009)
The Reformation in Germany (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002)
The Reformation and Rural Society. The Parishes of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach, 1528-1603 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996; Paperback, 2002)
Edited Books
With Beat Kümin, Interpreting Early Modern Europe (London: Routledge Publishers, 2020)
With Dagmar Freist und Mark Greengrass, Living with Religious Diversity in Early Modern Europe (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009)
With Martina Fuchs, The Histories of Charles V: Nationale Perspektiven von Persönlichkeit und Herrschaft (Münster: Aschendorff, 2005)
With Luise Schorn-Schütte, The Protestant Clergy of Early Modern Europe (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003)
The German Reformation: The Essential Readings (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999)
'Martin Luther and the Reformation in Historical Thought, 1517-2017,’ Studies 106 (2017), 404-16.
‘Luther’s Lost Books and the Myth of the Memory Cult,’ Past and Present (Supplement) 234 (2017), 262-85.
‘Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses and the Origins of the Reformation Narrative,’ English Historical Review 556 (2017), 533-69.
The Sense of the Past in Reformation Germany,’ German History, 30, 1 (2012), 1-21 (part 1); German History, 30, 2 (2012), 175-98 (part 2).
‘Urban Order and Religious Coexistence in the German Imperial City: Augsburg and Donauwörth, 1548-1608,’ Central European History, 40, 1 (2007), 1-33.
‘Faith and History on the Eve of Enlightenment. Ernst Salomon Cyprian, Gottfried Arnold, and the History of Heretics,’ Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 57 (2006), 33-54.
‘Charles V and the Historians,’ German History, 21 (2003), 104-24.
‘Popular Astrology and Lutheran Propaganda in Reformation Germany,’ History, 84, 3 (1999), 403-18.
‘Urban Culture and Court Culture in the European Past,’ The Historical Journal, 40, 3 (1997), 825-33.
‘Political Culture and the Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire,’ German History, 14, 2 (1996), 354-79.
‘The Reformation and Parish Morality in Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach,’ Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, 87 (1996), 255-86.
‘Reformations,’ in C. Scott Dixon and Beat Kümin (eds.), Interpreting Early Modern Europe (London: Routledge Publishers, 2020), 121-150.
‘Church, Religion, and Morality,’ in Jeroen J. H. Dekker (ed.), The Cultural History of Education in the Renaissance (London: Bloomsbury, 2020), 19-43.
‘The Radicals,’ in Ulinka Rublack (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), 190–213.
‘The Imperial Cities and the Politics of Reformation,’ in R.J.W. Evans, Michael Schaich und Peter Wilson (eds.), The Holy Roman Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 139-164.
‘The Politics of Law and Gospel:The Protestant Prince and the Holy Roman Empire,’ in Bridget Heal und Ole Peter Grell (ed.), The Impact of the European Reformation (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), 37-62.
‘The Reformation Movement in Germany: The Message, the Media, and the Locations of Development,’ in Max Reinhart (ed.), Early Modern German Literature. The Camden House History of German Literature. Vol. 4. (Camden House, 2007), 189-216.
‘Ideas of Empire: Charles V and His Reign in British Historical Thought,’ in C. Scott Dixon und Martina Fuchs (eds.), The Histories of Charles V. Nationale Perspektiven von Persönlichkeit und Herrschaft (Münster: Aschendorff, 2005), 159-190.
‘The Princely Reformation in Germany,’ in Andrew Pettegree (ed.), The Reformation World (London: Routledge, 2000), 146-168.