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The European Reformations / Carter Lindberg.

Lindberg, Carter, 1937- (author.).

Summary:

Combining seamless synthesis of original material with updated scholarship, The European Reformations 2nd edition, provides the most comprehensive and engaging textbook available on the origins and impacts of Europe's Reformations - and the consequences that continue to resonate today. A fully revised and comprehensive edition of this popular introduction to the Reformations of the sixteenth century. Includes new sections on the Catholic Reformation, the Counter Reformation, the role of women, and the Reformation in Britain, sets the origins of the movements in the context of late medieval social, economic and religious crises, carefully tracing its trajectories through the different religious groups, succeeds in weaving together religion, politics, social forces, and the influential personalities of the time, in to one compelling story, provides a variety of supplementary materials, including end-of-chapter suggestions for further reading, along with maps, illustrations, a glossary, and chronologies.

Record details

ISBN: 9781405180689 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781405180672 (paperback : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xviii, 454 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Copyright: ©2010

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

History, historiography, and interpretations of the Reformations -- The late Middle Ages : threshold and foothold of the Reformations -- The dawn of a new era -- Wait for no one : implementation of reforms in Wittenberg -- Fruits of the fig tree : social welfare and education -- The Reformation of the common man -- The Swiss Connection : Zwingli and the Reformation in Zurich -- The sheep against the shepherds : the radical Reformations -- Augsburg 1530 to Augsburg 1555 : reforms and politics -- "The most perfect school of Christ" : the Genevan Reformation -- Refuge in the shadow of God's wings : the Reformation in France -- The blood of the martyrs : the Reformation in the Netherlands -- The Reformations in England and Scotland -- Catholic renewal and the counter-Reformation -- Legacies of the Reformations.