Hello all,
Looking for a book about Martin Luther and the Reformation written by an author(s) writing from a Catholic Church perspective. Preferably historical texts written from the time period of the Reformation. Also, if such text exists, where one can purchase it.
Thanks ahead of time!
Exsurge Domine - the papal bull ordering Luther to recant (spoiler alert: he didn't)
Mark Edwards, Printing, Propaganda, and Martin Luther has a chapter on Luther's earliest Catholic critics in print
David Bagchi, Luther's Earliest Opponents: Catholic Controversialists 1518-1525
Luther and Erasmus: Free Will and Salvation, ed. Rupp and Watson - the amazing letter exchange between the two, in which theologies are explained very well on both sides, one party to the exchange is endlessly gracious, and one party to the exchange lets the snark flow freely
If you read Latin and/or early modern German, there are a few treatises and sermons on Google Books and archive.org I could point you to.
The Catholics actually had a lot of trouble mounting a literary response to Luther early on, which Edwards and Bagchi discuss.
This might not be exactly what you're looking for, but check out the Council of Trent. The Council was held on and off from 1545 to 1563 (for reference, Luther was excommunicated in 1521). It was, in some ways, the Catholic Church's official response to the Protestant Reformation, and it produced extensive writings. The full text of the council is available in several places online, but here's a link. There are also many books written about the Council of Trent, its context, and analysis thereof, but I'll leave it to someone else to recommend something good.
[Edit]: added dates of the council