Reformation Europe

The first survey to utilise the approaches of the new cultural history in analysing how Reformation Europe came about.

Ulinka Rublack (Author)

9781107603547, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 September 2017

270 pages, 54 b/w illus. 1 map
22.8 x 15.3 x 1.3 cm, 0.44 kg

'The new edition strengthens Rublack's explanation for how Martin Luther and Jean Calvin, the principal figures of the book, overcame similar impediments and became the great leaders of Protestantism. … The author has added many illustrations and anecdotes … Recommended.' F. J. Baumgartner, Choice

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.

Prologue: prophecy
1. Locating the Reformation: Martin Luther and Wittenberg
2. Disseminating Luther´s Reformation
3. People and networks in the age of the Reformations
4. John Calvin and Geneva
5. Calvinism in Europe
6. A religion of the word
7. Protestant material and emotional cultures
Epilogue: A new cultural history of the Reformation.

Subject Areas: Calvinist, Reformed & Presbyterian Churches [HRCC93], Protestantism & Protestant Churches [HRCC9], Church history [HRCC2], Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH], European history [HBJD]