As the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation approaches, the world's foremost Reformation scholar revisits one of the most momentous episodes in history.
As the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation approaches, the world's foremost Reformation scholar revisits one of the most momentous episodes in history.
The most profound characteristic of Western Europe in the Middle Ages was its cultural and religious unity, a unity secured by a common alignment with the Pope in Rome, and a common language--Latin--for worship and scholarship. The Reformation shattered that unity, and the conse…
by Mayer, Thomas F., (Thomas Frederick)
fromCatholic Christendom, 1300-1700
The Reformation used to be singular: a unique event that happened within a tidily circumscribed period of time, in a tightly constrained area and largely because of a single individual. Few students of early modern Europe would now accept this view. Offering a broad overview of …
by Mayer, Thomas F., (Thomas Frederick)
fromCatholic Christendom, 1300-1700
The Reformation used to be singular: a unique event that happened within a tidily circumscribed period of time, in a tightly constrained area and largely because of a single individual. Few students of early modern Europe would now accept this view. Offering a broad overview of …
This is the second, amended and enlarged edition of a familiar standard work, first published in 1958. Like its predecessor, it describes the open conflicts of the Reformation from Luther's first challenge to the uneasy peace of the 1560's. Reforming movements in all the princip…
This is the second, amended and enlarged edition of a familiar standard work, first published in 1958. Like its predecessor, it describes the open conflicts of the Reformation from Luther's first challenge to the uneasy peace of the 1560's. Reforming movements in all the princip…
by Elton, G. R., (Geoffrey Rudolph)
fromNew Cambridge modern history
by Elton, G. R., (Geoffrey Rudolph)
fromNew Cambridge modern history
Annotation Examines women who chose to risk persecution and martyrdom to pursue the radical Protestant movement during the Reformation. Most of the 34 essays focus on a single woman, but others discuss such groups as women in the Hutterite song book, women in Tiron who recanted,…