Reformation Europe (New Approaches to European History, Series Number 28) - Hardcover

Rublack, Ulinka

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521802849 ISBN 13: 9780521802840

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

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, as did Jean Calvin in Geneva one generation later. This is the first book which uses the approaches of new cultural history to describe how Reformation Europe came about and what it meant.

About this title

Book Description:

This is one of the most tantalising questions in history: How could the Protestant Reformation take off from a tiny town in the middle of Saxony? Martin Luther founded a religion which up to this day determines many people's lives in intimate ways, and so did Jean Calvin one generation later. This is the first book which uses the approaches of the new cultural history to envisage Reformation Europe. It also provides a unique and lively discussion of Protestant everyday culture across Europe.

About the Author:

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0521802849
• ISBN 13: 9780521802840
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 226