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.
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Prologue: prophecy; 1. Martin Luther's truth; 2. The age of heterodoxy; 3. Calvinism; 4. Truths of everyday life; Epilogue: towards a cultural history of the Reformation.
'Pupils and students studying the Reformation will welcome this fine book.' The Times Higher Education Supplement
This book provides a unique and lively discussion of Protestant everyday culture across Europe.

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ISBN
9780521802840
Publisert
2005-02-17
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
492 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
157 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, P, 05, 01, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
226

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Biographical note

Ulinka Rublack is a Lecturer in History at Cambridge University and a Fellow of St John's College. Her previous publications include The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany (1999).