Reformation Europe

Here are two of the most tantalising questions in Western history: how could the Protestant Reformation take off from a tiny town in the middle of Saxony, which contemporaries regarded as a mud hole? How could a man of humble origins who was 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 up to this day determines many people's lives in intimate ways, and so did Jean Calvin in Geneva one generation later. This is the first book which uses the approaches of the new cultural history to describe how Reformation Europe came about and what it meant. It also challenges the idea that Protestantism was a more rational religion of the Word, providing a unique and lively discussion of Protestant everyday culture across Europe.

ISBN 0521003695   Pages 226 ISBN13 9780521003698 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Weight (grammes) 371 Imprint Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Format Paperback   Series title New Approaches to European History Publication date 17 Feb 2005   Height (mm) 228 Library of Congress 2004054629   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 274.06   Spine width (mm) 11 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Tertiary education, General, Professional / Scholarly

		Prologue : prophecy		1
1		Martin Luther's truth		12
2		The age of heterodoxy		65
3		Calvinism		104
4		Truths of everyday life		146
		Epilogue : towards a cultural history of the Reformation		192

'Pupils and students studying the Reformation will welcome this fine book.' Times Higher Education Supplement

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