| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 406 pages) : maps |
| Series |
Oxford Histories |
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Oxford histories.
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| Contents |
Late Medieval Christianity / Bruce Gordon -- Martin Luther / Lyndal Roper -- Calvinism and the Reform of the Reformation / Carlos Eire -- The Radical Reformation / Brad S. Gregory -- Catholic Reformation and Renewal / Simon Ditchfield -- Britain's Reformations / Peter Marshall -- Reformation Legacies / Alexandra Walsham |
| Summary |
"The Reformation was a seismic event in history, whose consequences are still working themselves out across the world. The protests against indulgences staged by the German monk Martin Luther in 1517 belonged to a long-standing pattern of calls for reform and renewal in the Christian Church. But they rapidly took a radical and unexpected turn, engulfing first Germany and then Europe as a whole in furious arguments about how God’s will was to be discerned, and how humans were to be ‘saved’. These debates did not remain confined to a narrow sphere of theology. They came to reshape politics and international relations; social, cultural, and artistic developments; relations between the sexes; and the patterns and performances of everyday life. They were also the stimulus for Christianity’s transformation into a truly global religion, as agents of the Roman Catholic Church sought to compensate for losses in Europe with new conversions in Asia and the Americas. Drawing on the latest and most exciting research, this volume by a team of leading international scholars seeks to capture the essence of the Reformation in both its immediate, explosive beginnings and its longer-term consequences and legacy. The story is not one of an inevitable triumph of liberty over oppression, enlightenment over ignorance. Rather, it tells how a multitude of rival groups and individuals, with or without the support of political power, strove after visions of ‘reform’. And how, in spite of themselves, they laid the foundations for the plural and conflicted world we now inhabit"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Previously published in 2015 with illustrations |
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Online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed on November 21, 2023) |
| Subject |
Reformation.
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Reformation.
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Reformation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Marshall, Peter, 1964 October 26- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780192648372 |
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0192648373 |
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9780191964961 |
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0191964964 |
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