Download or read book European Universities in the Age of Reformation and Counter Reformation written by Helga Robinson-Hammerstein and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussions have suggested the following: far from losing its significance with the break-up of the universal church and the universal empire, the European university really came into its own in the early modern period (the age of confessional strife).