Reformation Europe (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107018426)

How could the Protestant Reformation take off from Wittenberg, a tiny town in Saxony, which contemporaries regarded as a mud hole? And how could a man of humble origins, deeply scared by the devil, become a charismatic leader and convince others that the Pope was the living Antichrist? Martin Luther founded a religion which to this day determines many people's lives, as did Jean Calvin in Geneva one generation later. In this new edition of her best selling textbook, Ulinka Rublack addresses these two tantalising questions. Including evidence from the period's rich material culture, alongside a wealth of illustrations, this is the first textbook to use the approaches of the new cultural history to analyse how Reformation Europe came about. Updated for the anniversary of the circulation of Luther's ninety-five theses, Reformation Europe has been restructured for ease of teaching, and now contains additional references to 'radical' strands of Protestantism.

Author: Ulinka Rublack
ISBN-10: 1107018420
ISBN-13: 9781107018426
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/21/2017
Pages: 270
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.42w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2018