This beautifully illustrated book is the most ambitious one-volume survey of the Reformation yet. A timely and much-needed account, it looks at every aspect of the Reformation world and considers new historical research which has led to the expansion of the subject both thematically and geographically. The strength of The Reformation World is its breadth and originality, with material drawn from many different countries, including archival material only recently made available to scholars in central Europe.
Topics included are:
the Church before the Reformation
Luther and Germany
the Reformation outside Germany
Calvinism and the Second Reformation
the Reformation and society
arts and architecture
the printed book and visual media.
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Review
'Contender for classic status ... this is a superb volume, overseen with masterly control by its editor ... Real experts summarise their knowledge in a uniformly readable and authoratative fashion, and the prose is enriched by a mass of excellent and intelligent illustrations.' – History Today
About the Author
Andrew Pettegree is Professor of Modern History at the University of St. Andrews, and Director of the St. Andrews Reformation Studies Institute.
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This beautifully illustrated book is the most ambitious one-volume survey of the Reformation yet. A timely and much-needed account, it looks at every aspect of the Reformation world and considers new historical research which has led to the expansion of the subject both thematically and geographically. The strength of The Reformation World is its breadth and originality, with material drawn from many different countries, including archival material only recently made available to scholars in central Europe.
Topics included are:
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Review
'Contender for classic status ... this is a superb volume, overseen with masterly control by its editor ... Real experts summarise their knowledge in a uniformly readable and authoratative fashion, and the prose is enriched by a mass of excellent and intelligent illustrations.' – History Today
About the Author
Andrew Pettegree is Professor of Modern History at the University of St. Andrews, and Director of the St. Andrews Reformation Studies Institute.